One way to use this card is to pair it with proliferate effects like Atraxa, Praetors' Voice and Yawgmoth, Thran Physician, which can keep putting counters on it each turn
I managed to find some vintage cards there
Its absurdly powerful, but also very specific
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In the 2020 article, Rosewater rates it as an 8 on the Storm Scale (an informal scale that Rosewater uses to gauge how likely a mechanic is to come back in a Standard set)
