My main hesitation with this card has less to do with the depreciating mana value and more with the lack of control you have over what you get
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Extra Deck 15 Starving Venom Fusion Dragon X DARK Level 8 [ Dragon / FusionEffect ] ATK 2800 DEF 2000 2 DARK monsters on the field, except Tokens If this card is Fusion Summoned: You can make this card gain ATK equal to 1 opponent's Special Summoned monster, until the end of this turn
You generally get at least one trigger, plus it opens the door to really interesting synergies with cards like Nesting Dovehawk and Padeem, Consul of Innovation that affect themselves when converted into tokens or artifacts
shadow63 An 8/8 with no downside for three mana seems okay to me, unless you're just talking about the ability
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