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Enchantments create ongoing magical effects that persist on the battlefield

the discard trigger leaves the original creature in the graveyard to reanimate later

: Exile Jin-Gitaxias, then return it to the battlefield transformed under its owner's control

there are some extremely powerful new cards like Tervigon, Old One Eye, and Magus Lucea Kane that are worth exploring and building around on their own

Similarly, if you sacrifice an artifact or creature to activate a mana ability to pay a cost with waterbend, that artifact or creature won't be on the battlefield when you pay the spell's costs, so you won't be able to tap it for waterbend

Add to that a free equip with every new Mouse, Rat, Squirrel, or Hamster that enters the battlefield, and you've got a sword that's way better than a similar rhyming piece of equipment