The Magic card Aerith Rescue Mission encapsulates that choice perfectly: you can either take the elevator, giving you three 1/1 Hero Tokens (representing Cloud, Tifa, and Barrett being ready to fight), or you can take the stairs, which lets you tap and stun up to three creatures (representing their cardio-induced duress)
Across 412 cards we've SnapGraded that were then submitted to PSA, our grade matched within 0.5 in 87% of cases and within 1.0 in 96% of cases
Every turn he uses his +1 makes him a bigger threat, scaling nicely into 4/5 and 5/6 quickly to help force opponents into finding blockers fast
Most importantly, its amazing in Superfriends shells, since your Planeswalkers will enter with double the amount of loyalty counters as normal
Id recommend running at least Mystic Forge and Strionic Resonator