It also takes up one of those few precious slots you can afford to have a non ramp, non threat card in
Youll need to find non-plant creature tokens from other cards for this to be any good
For this reason, the creative team on R&D tends to avoid calling cards "Bob the Giant," choosing the more evocative Hammerfist Giant or Bloodfire Colossus instead
Theres a lot of text on this card: it lets you cast Insect spells from your graveyard, mills cards whenever an Insect dies, and it even has a mana sink that makes your Insects stronger and more poisonous venomous
Meanwhile Samurai Katana is only 2R giving +2/+2, trample, haste and the Samurai creature type
It can grind with the best of them, and one-hit KOs are relatively common through commander damage