If youre attacking with a bands with other creature, you get to assign how the combat damage from the blocking creatures is distributed
Thus more people are playing the hate
The biggest tournament recently was an online 10k (record prize pool, lowest barrier to entry) and only had 300 something players
When paired with consistent graveyard recursion cards found in Commander decks built around creatures like Meren of Clan Nel Toth, Spore Frog can allow its controller to essentially prevent damage that would be dealt to them every turn , keeping them alive long enough to enact whatever shenanigans they have in mind
It isnt just reanimationits refinement, turning the chaos of the graveyard into your own growing army of perfected creations
Reprint Value Looking at reprint values for precons is always a little tricky, as the card prices are likely to drop now that the precons have been announced