Much like how Treasure Cruise stops being worth playing when you slowly and unreliably fill up your graveyard
Enhance your experience with high-quality gameplay accessories like a foldable two-player game board, stackable damage counter cones, and a toolbox case that keeps everything conveniently stored for your next battle.
The cycle had to be something cool for new players who might not know the reference, and it had to play well in Standard
(2011-09-22) Specifically, if The Mimeoplasm as a copy of a creature card that enters the battlefield with a number of +1/+1 counters, The Mimeoplasm will enter with those +1/+1 counters and +1/+1 counters equal to the power of the other exiled card
If there is a [Monkey.D.Luffy] Character, this effect is negated
You can draw and then also toss a counter of the +1/+1type here for bigger and bigger digs from the tapping, so there is great internal synergy if you choose to mill yourself