And if you instead hold your removal spells to pick off the pumped creatures at instant speed, your opponent has the option of simply attacking first, eventually forcing you to act with your removal spells, thus allowing them to land a full-value Verdurous Gearhulk anyway
The card enters and lets you discard any number of cards and draw that many cards plus one
From a modest percentage of the winner's metagame in the final premier events before the ban, it has more than tripled its representation
Yes, there are a handful of white cards that draw you cards when your creatures die, though they all have conditions like being equipped, having a +1/+1 counter, or costing
Most demons are pretty disruptive in their own right (Sire of Insanity, Malfegor, Chaos Defiler), already making them threats
Well, those were only three cards (and Red-Eyes Dark Dragoon) out of a whole slew of cards that would be available