You do have 19 targets to get to turn into creatures, which require them to be four or more mana to animate, so making your early land drops is crucial
You should be getting enough card draw and power from all those ETB triggers that your opponents can't keep up, letting you dominate one of the best card games
That means your opponents' best threats won't be coming your way, which gives you more breathing room to cast spells that don't typically affect the board, which in turn begets more Faerie tokens
Its one thing for a combo to win a game and end it, but the worst banned cards will stop your opponents from doing anything from early in the game (think about cheating out a Sundering Titan on turn 1), but wont let you win for a long time
If youre familiar with the Final Fantasy games, youll know that each title (except for the first) has a different iteration of the character Cid, so WOTC decided to have a little fun with his card by printing 15 different arts to represent this: Finally, Chocobos come in all different colors in the games, so there are alternate arts for each one in the main set
To add insult to injury, theyre even italicized implying that they have more in common with flavor text than rules text
