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Ashcoat buffs your rats when it attacks and allows you to get them back from your graveyard

But still, Courtesan Thais ranks amongst the best fire spells in the game

Later on, more than 20 years later, they would even revisit this and give it a lot more support with a Phyrexian-themed set not bad for a mechanic that was initially just meant to represent the slow death of a bug stinging you over and over again

Part of why this is so playable is that blue is very thin on the ground for good playable aggressive one and two drops and while this does not scream aggression it is a fantastic support dork and scales very well with equipment and other pump effects

And generic goodstuff like Swan Song and Nature's Claim are also great here