Even though vanilla creatures arent the most interesting in the world, this card is eminently flavorful, and the rate of getting a combined 12 power and toughness for only four mana is still an extremely good rate over 15 years after this card released
I believe this is true regardless of how difficult they are to trigger, but emerging from Mortal Combat victorious seems like a breeze in a format like Commander where you can mill yourself to your heart's content with commanders like Grist, the Hunger Tide, Iname, Death Aspect (the mill comes from dumping your creatures into your 'yard on ETB), and Zask, Skittering Swarmlord
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Of course, as good as Baneslayer Angel and Lyra Dawbringer are, there are still five more white creatures to go, and thats to say nothing of token-making or Planeswalkers
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