The equipped creature copies exactly what's printed on the exiled card and nothing else
Its not hard to build a deck around it or to add this card to a Niv-Mizzet Reborn deck because they legends care about roughly the same suite of cards
Despite looking like a U/W deck that splashed only the tiniest bit of the other colors, The Deck would reinvent itself after sideboarding, turning into a Blood Moon deck despite having just seven basic lands, itself (and this was obviously long before fetchlands)
Black Mages Rod is the centerpiece here, coming in hot as a full playset
ETALI, PRIMAL CONQUEROR // ETALI, PRIMAL SICKNESS If you thought Gilgamesh was going hard on red clone effects, youve seen nothing yet
Rebound exiles spells when you cast them and lets you cast them again for free on your next upkeep