He can also reliably pitch your hand into your graveyard, which can make a good setup for graveyard strategies - whether you're trying to get an Underworld Breach / Lion's Eye Diamond loop going for a combo, or just want to reanimate something huge
This is unsurprising, as board-wiping with benefits is a powerful concept for a card
Times have changed as the power of creatures has risen, and yet this Lion never got another day in the sun
it evolves when you play a bigger creature, which lets it tap for more mana, allowing you to play a bigger creature to trigger evolve again, so you can tap it for even more mana, and so on
No, that is not John Tatian
Outside of Niv decks, there are some Standard decks that come close to meeting Jegantha, the Wellspring restriction, but most have a small number of key cards that they probably can't afford to lose