How that came about was that the artist, Ron Spencer, was turning in a sketch for the art director to sign off on, and instead of handing in a sketch of some scary creature, he turned in a picture of a little mouse with hot cocoa to make the art director laugh
It often doesnt even matter if you have the third relevant artifact or enchantment to follow up with because so many of those synergies are intertwined and massively diminished after the first sweep
In Commander his deck should contain plenty of red cards with high mana values and casting cost reduction, such as Blasphemous Act or Volcanic Salvo - you want cards that you can pitch to get a huge Blazing Shoal pump, but which you also have a good chance to cast normally
you can just kill the 8/8 then leave your opponents with an annoying choice next turn: Do they take 10 damage or block and trigger a bunch of fights
Being able to crew vehicles itself while making them larger is a good fit
It took several months, and a reprint of that first set, to bring the game to where finding cards is not so difficult
