Black, on the other hand, leans into sacrifice and drain effects with cards like Blood Artist, Zulaport Cutthroat, and Ayara, First of Locthwain, while Dictate of Erebos or Grave Pact make every token death a nightmare for your opponents
You can build in so many different directions with this card, and yet rarely do we see it Top 8
On your own battlefield, if you run a Liquimetal Torque, attach Artifact Ward to your biggest creature, then turn their best blocker into an artifact until the end of turn and swing in for free, or protect your own creature fully against an incoming Wurmcoil Engine
Beyond Devoted Druid shenanigans things become a bit murky because some decks that could use Tyvar will still want Grist instead, but Tyvar does offer some interesting possibilities in other decks
Abzan Ascendancy will put more tokens on the board
What makes this Battle truly worth it is if you can utilize the Kraken tokens for something bigger, which is exactly what Indomitable Creativity decks can do