This lets any creature come down swinging with double power right away, which could very easily be a 24-power Ghalta, Primal Hunger, or worse
This connive deck features reanimation and discard matters themes
Its a lot harder to do this for white outside of supplementary products, because the things white does best hindering through taxes, playing efficient bodies, and using fixed buffs are way more difficult to scale on one card designed for multiple formats
That means everything from the product lineup and mechanics to where you can get it all for less
It is not a case of redundancy helping the effect as is often the case for cube cards
But in a normal two-player game, it became a virtually unkillable threat that made waves in creature-based decks from Azorius Stoneblade to merfolk