If you played Standard in 2025, you either played these cards, or you built your deck specifically to beat them
The transformed side is well a Serra Angel clone, which is nice, but the effort to reach the finish line would require quite a bit more chess work between you and your opponents creatures
This enchantment sits in play and blows up small creatures for a few turns
It shows how little the designers understood the game they had created that this card - which lets you draw three cards for one mana - was assumed to be roughly as powerful as Giant Growth, Lightning Bolt, Dark Ritual, or (of all things) Healing Salve
Forgotten Ancient Forgotten Ancient is among the most played +1/+1 counter cards on EDHREC, for good reason
cards on their field than you, give up to 1 of your opponent's Characters 2000 power during this turn