This is a prime example of a card with a rock-solid floor that persists despite not having an incredible ceilingthough players have found plenty of synergy with cards like Living End and Up the Beanstalk
Here are some of the more notable interactions that, to this day, may still confuse even the most experienced of players: Casting as an Aura : When you cast a creature with bestow as an Aura, it becomes a non-creature spell on the stack
Humble the Brute: too heavy for the benefit, but it could be useful in limited or in Standard with a lack of other cards in white with a similar effect
It has both pivotal lines of text that you need to make a true wall/defender deck work, inverting their damage based on toughness, and allowing defenders to attack
Neat for Standard mana though
Even if you don't have a Rat to regenerate, it can still tap for colorless mana