Suddenly, combat damage stacked and effects could happen before said damage was dealt
It has an incredible impact as soon as it enters, generating card advantage by drawing a card while making your opponent discard and stopping them from developing a board if you cheat it out fast enough
While trying to think of things that were host or augment-like, I realized we had a brand-new mechanic coming up in Ikoria: Lair of Behemoths that fit the bill, something called mutate
The cheaper creatures in the deck are threats themselves, so The Gitrog Monster naturally survives in a lot of games
players, the love of the card game evolved from watching the anime in the late 90s and early 2000s
Control decks hate it: dealing with just one planeswalker is already a pain, but two of them are somewhat impossible as few board wipes can hit them outside of the ones like Burn Down the House