Great for surviving alpha strikes, red board wipes, or just making sure your game-winning swing lands clean
Some of the worst games of Cube you can play are the ones decided by protection from abilities, and those cards always get some special attention from me when I do my overviews of the digital Cubes
Seeing as players begin with 40 life in Commander, winning the game with this Cat Beast is fairly trivial in a dedicated lifegain shell, though having some redundancy via Test of Endurance, or (for the devoted) Celestial Convergence might be a good idea, too
At such a low cost, there arent likely to be quite as many threats out so early in the game, either, making Pinocchio, Star Attraction a way of bursting out of the gate with a lore total that your opponents may struggle to ever catch
He has so much synergy with all the other pirate-themed cards, some of which specifically get stronger when a captain is in play (like Mr