For sheer efficiency and value, its hard to beat Rancor or Ethereal Armor
Zada flips the script: any Instant and Sorcery you cast that targets only Zada is copied for each creature you control, with each copy targeting one of those creatures
Cards such as Eldrazi skyspawner and blight herder provide scions to help accelerate into your bigger creatures - the likes of conduit of ruin and desolation twin
Looking back, I was dead set on VMAX simply being a new card that was placed over an existing Pokmon V, much like the Mega Evolution cards of the XY era
You can transform the artifact at any time for two generic mana, turning it into a Token Artifact Creature Phyrexian, a 0/0 that also retains those +1/+1 counters
So with all of that in mind, perhaps its no wonder that this variant of Portgas D