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It creates steady pressure on their hands while ramping your board, pairing well with big constructs or vehicles like Smuggler's Copter

Giving your opponent access to that isn't always ideal, but you get it first, so I think it ends up benefitting you more often than it benefits them

Intrepid Adversary also just scales more easily with the ability being paid in two-mana increments as opposed to three

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Unnatural Endurance takes a card that was powerful enough before and reprints it without the two life cost

My favorite of these has to be Swords to Plowshares, which shows a futuristic tank thats been converted into a farm tractor