"He mentioned how it would be cool to have a lotus modeled after the card." Lucky chap
This deck focuses on quickly casting large, flying angel creatures, nearly all of which of which have strong secondary abilities
If all that sounds too niche, remember you can play Metamorphic Alteration on opposing creatures to make them worse, copying a 1/1 token or whatever else is lying around
With haste and trample, it can come out of nowhere and eat a big hole in someones graveyard, making it large enough to do even worse damage the next turn
Your opponents had better be playing some removal or this game is probably over
2021-02-05 It doesnt matter whether a Giant, Wizard, or spell you control deals the excess damage, only that excess damage was dealt and that one of those three things dealt damage to the creature or planeswalker at some point during the turn