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That's really good card flow from a two-drop in your Command Zone but note that it's not the power, but the base power, so even if you pumped its power with equipment like, say, Bonesplitter, it would still just be one card drawn

If you pay the offspring cost and have Alania, Divergent Storm out, thats quite a chunk of damage

Abzan counters and aristocrats are supreme archetypes, and Ghave, Guru of Spores and Karador, Ghost Chieftain absolutely pioneered that, remaining at the 3rd and 4th spot for Abzan, respectively

You can easily swap Vorinclex, Monstrous Raider for other variants of this effect like Hardened Scales or Branching Evolution

Largely because Vintage had a 26-year head start on a card pool