In addition to weaponizing various life-gaining effects, this effectively causes creatures with lifelink to deal twice as much damage to players
Like a lot of the other cool, iconic legends in the set, 6 mana is a lot, but being able to flip this guy into a 9/9 that fights a creature, gives you a ton of mana, and eventually turns back into Clive rather than dying, could make it all worth it
It actually did a pretty good job of making sure that more of the tokens died and there was never any danger that Grismold would fall victim to it
This allows you to protect him immediately instead of Zur being vulnerable to a round across the table
If you've got basic Mountain on your side, just make sure you save the last Lightning Strike for the flip trigger
You might have noticed that the MTG Assassins Creed Collector Boosters have only 10 cards each as opposed to the 15-card standard