It has no downside in life or coming into play tapped
#8 No, bigger than that. No, bigger than that. When the Phyrexians waged war with the Mirrans, they stole Mirrodins best weapon: the Darksteel Colossus
This does 50 damage to one of their Pokmon if you choose the Skill Dive attack when in play, but they might be too busy taking in the excellent artwork to notice straight away
Card Treatments If there's one thing that Wizards has loved implementing over the last several years, it's the myriad of various card treatments
After that, there are tokens that can block, or the board gets wiped
Having an Abrupt Decay in hand or in deck with more removal, it might be better to proactively take that pesky planeswalker, or counterspell, or Path to Exile, or any non creature card