The payoff is definitely worth it as long as you can untap with it
Later, in Fallen Empires, caving both to practical concerns and the average tabletop players innate need to collect everything even remotely peripheral to their respective game, MTG maker Wizards of the Coast released a sheet of small, square tokens in magazine The Duelist
This card is essentially "Path or no?" against Zoo
So as long as development tested the Rats in high numbers to make sure it wasn't degenerate, we knew it was safe to break the rule (well, as safe as development can ever be the real world just has so many more playtesters.) Rule #4 Breaking Rules Is A Test For the Future When we do choose to break a rule, R&D tends to keep an eye on the card
When you are more midrange and have a lot of redundancy then perhaps the vamp is not for you
Modern prowess decks still play it, and it was a staple in aggro decks throughout its time in Standard