The History of Descend in MTG The Lost Caverns of Ixalan introduced the descend abilities in November 2023
Maze of Ith Maze of Ith has several good uses
Whenever I'm playing an aggressive deck, I hate to see a Kitchen Finks across the table from me
It doesn't get much more telling than that
For example, if you control this creature and Anointed Procession ("If an effect would create one or more tokens under your control, it creates twice that many of those tokens instead."), each time you create tokens, you can choose to apply Anointed Procession's effect to double those tokens first, then apply this creature's effect to create an additional Thopter token
I like to break down cards for decks by "meat," "potatoes," and "vegetables" as an analog to what cards do for a deck