You can also stack damage via Jeska, Thrice Reborn or Furnace of Rath or others
The Bowman variant rewards players for drawing extra cards by steadily strengthening creatures with +1/+1 counters and lifelink, while the King of Dale amplifies the others ability with two-card draws and doubles your tokens every time you create one or more
In Red, it can give trample as well and is even better, but just a boost of +3/+3 each time you use it is enough to run it, and yet it's only in 3,930 decks and most Voltron and Equipment brews run red (Boros, as an example)
The backside has all the trappings of how the back of my illustration pieces tended to look
Invasion of Ikoria gives us that creature for the cost of skipping six damage rather than paying mana, and if there's one thing we've learned over the years, it's that paying life to make mana is almost always worthwhile
Then there's also the full-art version of the Yuffie Kisaragi - Yuriko, the Tiger's Shadow, currently just under $100