If your opponents are staring down an army of Slivers, and the Hivelord is in play, it may cause them to overestimate its threat level and waste their removal on it rather than something more important in play
The outlaw synergies have only been introduced recently, but they have a lot of depth since assassins, mercenaries, rogues, warlocks, and pirates have years of support, not to mention how cracked Treasure tokens are
At 4 mana, it's a solid uncommon
Moving into Izzet, The Emperor of Palamecia is a manadork that adds red or green mana, but it can only be used to cast non-creature spells
Examples of such programs included Apprentice , Magic Workstation , Deck Daemon , CardMaster , [233] XMage , and Cockatrice
Shilgengar is here not only to push the tourism economy of Lavender Town, but also to sacrifice Angels