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At four mana its priced to fit into controlling and aggressive decks alike, and the fact that you can get it back off of either your opponents creatures dying or your own is huge for making it work in either strategy

We also didn't have a job creature type that was part Blue Mage, part Chef, all Quina

Perhaps most notably, though, is the way it allowed a sort of Dredge list to become viable in Pioneer (along with Bloodghast)

Whenever equipped creature attacks, create two tapped 1/1 white Spirit creature tokens with flying

This makes it virtually immune to sorcery-speed hand disruption once it is safely tucked away in the exile zone