It's stories like these that indicate the biggest risk involved with world-shaking bannings like that of Birthing Pod: The appeal of eternal formats is that one can build a deck, updating it with each new set but largely forgetting about it except when a tournament comes up
You could do some annoying take infinite turns thing with this, also some funny ways to remove flying like handing out a Colossus Hammer, which is probably the funniest thing to do with this guy

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Separately, these specific abilities arent exactly top-tier, but Formidable Speaker is one of those cases where it is greater than the sum of its parts
Recurring Deathmist over and over again proved to be a dominant strategy in Standard for many months
This scary clown also makes for a fairly interesting commander, as his ability to generate temporary 1/1 flying token copies of your other creatures has a lot of different applications