yugioh face card deck Draco Face-Off - Yu-Gi-Oh! Database Three musketeers of face cards~

Three mana for two damage with an additional benefit is a rate you're willing to pay for all sorts of cards throughout Magic

Cards can be changed if theyre too powerful (either by having a higher mana cost or by having abilities removed) or if theyre not powerful enough (either by having a lower mana cost or by having abilities added)

Its toughness also means its not vulnerable to smaller damage spells and its mana cost prevents it from being taken out by something like Portable Hole

Both options make sense

This means it just flips to its other face, the Phyrexian creature side, and keeps all +1/+1 counters it has on it

But this price spike just goes to show: if there's some way a Magic card can be played for free, it doesn't matter how bad it is, eventually it will leap up in price