manectric pokemon card (8/100) [EX: Crystal Guardians] Lightning Double Charge (40) You may attach up to 2 basic Energy cards from your hand to 1 of your Benched Pokémon Manectric - 7/106 - Holo

Then with Return to Ravnica we got Niv-Mizzet, Dracogenius, which was designed to be a homage to the original Firemind version -- draw cards and ping things -- but instead of pinging whenever you draw a card, this time you draw a card whenever you ping/hit an opponent, which means you don't get to ping seven times when you cast Wheel of Fortune and you can't combo off with Curiosity

Those creatures gain trample until end of turn

It's a huge card across all formats, thanks to its Affinity for creatures, meaning for every creature you have on the battlefield, it costs one less colorless mana to cast

Lets go over all these differences

I drew into and played an Alloy Myr and was positioned to be able to double up my counter production thanks to having lands and an Alloy Myr that could produce 5 mana and a Timeless Lotus that could do the same

Incremental value isn't really what elves want, they are bursty