Despite seeing little competitive appeal, this cards versatile toolbox makes it a hit in Duel Commander, cEDH, and casual Commander
With Trostani on board we recuperate all the life that we paid, and then poopulate the token
(An exerted creature won't untap during your next untap step.) Some refused to leave their shattered homes, vowing to rebuild at any cost
Ramp cards and other discard effects are prime examples of things that scale down and lose loads of value when sat under a Maggot or Fiend
A two-point bump in Power gets it to the two-hit threshold, which is not nothing, and the fact it can protect itself with Treasures or Clues or Rocks or whatever other permanents you can rustle up is super solid
Of course, you know what this is going to be like in Commander