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Clever Impersonator is excellent any time you have at least an okay board state, but is best used when copying something that will cause a huge amount of ability triggers to go off

And in a format where instant removal is at its worst, you have the power to simply end games on the spot with the four mana combo of Blitzball Shot into post-combat Self-Destruct

Before there was a formal tournament structure or if you were just playing kitchen-table casual Magic you would put as many Plague Rats as you owned in a deck and have at it

Instead, the partner with pairs allows WotC to dig into a design space thats too specific to be broadly applied, and it lets them test out very specific play patterns

And youre gonna be running as many card-draw-punish cards as card draw cards

It can destroy any permanent (even lands) at instant speed, and the drawback certainly is something that Green players can handle