There are also tons of life loss effects like Starscape Cleric, Dina, Soul Steeper, Vito, Thorn of the Dusk Rose, Enduring Tenacity
It also helps you to go on the offensive with the wolves your opponents give you or others you may have around
Lifelink matters only as damage is dealt
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While, in our ideal world, we'll grow it a bit before it dies so we can reanimate something bigger, this isn't always possible, and getting no reanimation value from its death is brutal
Its fitting that the last of the Commander rules experiments would be the first of the shared theme experiments, and creature types made this a truly memorable set