Though that combo isn't quick enough to make Enduring Tenacity more than a bit player in Standard, it's the kind of card that life-gain and life-drain decks in EDH love to play with, as it's effectively a second copy of Sanguine Bond (albeit cheaper and slightly more vulnerable to exile-based removal)
Magic 's Booster Fun team brought the style of Marvel to Magic with treatments that bring comic book action to the set's coolest cards
Cool effect to see on a body
Both put counters on creatures, invalidating their ability to attack you or planeswalkers you control, but Nils works more like a Ghostly Prison effect based on the number of counters creatures have
In a way, the opponents turn, where you get to use the different traps as interruptions, could be portrayed as some sort of competition the swordman has gone to after training, to close off the narrative there with the results of their matches, aka, how much they are able to stop their opponent, being the climax
I dont think I saw a Dreadnought in person for the first three years I played Magic