Sorin the Mirthless Planeswalkers that upticked to draw a card and downticked to protect themselves used to be the bread and butter of WotC's planeswalker design
Since Magic R&D's preferred term is now typal rather than tribal, whenever you see typal, understand we're talking about old tribal synergies (this also helps to differentiate type-based synergies from the tribal card type, which has been changed to kindred)
We may never know, but what we do know is that this is one of the best alt art cards ever printed
But not every gift is a card, and not every card with gift is a permanent
A great inclusion in our Halfling Food Tribal deck for going wide with Halflings
After all, the more cards you can draw, the more spells you can cast, and the closer you can get to your deck's win condition