Giving a creature shadow all but guarantees youll be able to sneak some combat damage through, giving your opponents very few ways to stop it
Red isn't quite as efficient at blowing things up outright, but it has much more flexibility
The choice to release seven card boosters rather than Commander decks for Assassin's Creed feels like Wizards AB testing different booster products, trying to find the minimum number of cards that Magic players will willingly buy
And Spider-Man's buff applies to legends as well as spiders, so you don't have to lean into the spider-centric part of the card, either
But thats fine, as Sapling of Colfenor has the handy indestructible keyword, so theres no way its dying from combat damage anytime soon
This black dinosaur can be especially powerful in a deck built around -1/-1 counters, as many of your opponents' creatures wont be able to block