It fits well into Abzan beatdown plans that want to apply early pressure while padding life totals, especially alongside blink effects like Ephemerate or recursion engines that reuse enters triggers for steady advantage
Compare ATK/DEF and apply damage to Life Points
A type of Trainer card that can be played any number of times per turn without restriction
Assassins, Mercenaries, and Rogues you control have deathtouch and "Whenever this creature deals combat damage to a player, you may remove a hit counter from a card that player owns in exile
EDIT 2019/4/30: The updates to the template are too numerous to list here, but the template has been improved drastically
Admittedly, however, the card has improved its fair share of formats, on account of just how effectively it allows fair decks to interact with unfair decks