Its a great answer to control decks since it makes tokens on cast, minimizing the usefulness of countermagic, and is practically impossible to remove
Turning them into Shades seemed like the logical progression
Whenever a player taps an opponent's creature, they can pay one additional mana to either create a 4/4 Elemental creature token, give each creature they control a +1/+1 counter, or scry two and draw a card
I have written about a lot of the cards that get upside here and I dont want to rehash too much of the article I wrote this week here, but the list of cards that get upside from this guy are almost too many to name
The Energy Return Pok-POWER lets you pull Energy back to your hand as often as you like before attacking, helping fuel its Damage Blast
Interaction Playing lots of large, threatening Dinosaurs means some players who like to steal creatures from their opponents will be looking my way, so Im running Homeward Path to help stop that nonsense