Theres a lot of ways to double up on the lifegain, and this is the cheapest, in addition to the cost reduction for everything else youre doing
Ethersworn Canonist Ethersworn Canonist sees plenty of play in diverse formats as a hate bear, with this human cleric protecting its owner from fast combos
Some of this mechanical dissonance also recently caused a stir among Magic: The Gathering players when Norman Osborn, a human, was given the Goblin creature type simply because his supervillain name is the Green Goblin
Then exile it.) Electroduplicate Rarity: Rare TYPE: Sorcery SUBTYPE: - CMC: 3 Mana cost: USD: $28.60 EUR: 14.09 TIX: 0.02 EDHREC RANK: 2407 Create a token that's a copy of target creature you control, except it has haste and "At the beginning of the end step, sacrifice this token." Flashback (You may cast this card from your graveyard for its flashback cost
The cheap bounce can help you stabilize early, while the card draw potential gives you a way to pull ahead in longer games
I hope its going to make the card get played more, and Im looking forward to the next printing of this card so we can get a non-40K artstyle card reprint in the near future