I could give him big stats and scary abilities so that once he got in play he would do "terrible" things, but most of the time the card was stuck in your hand
Ultimately, however, the mechanic was scrapped because it didnt capture the essence of what we were trying to do with the set. While Skirmish was scrapped for War of the Spark, March of the Machine promises to be a similarly high-stakes war for Magics multiverse
The one interesting case I have for this over Ghired is that you might be able to make some more janky combos happen because the token doesn't come in attacking
Cards like Neyith of the Dire Hunt help you to keep drawing cards while your creatures fight while cards like Zopandrel, Hunger Dominus, and Mr Orfeo, the Boulder boost up stats to make your creatures all massive threats
Even the starting point here a 3-mana 2/1 with First Strike isnt bad, but any time you attack with artifacts in play your opponent is going to have really hard decision to make