R&D is always thinking of ways to streamline text, and we came to the conclusion that it was just cleaner to have the creature deal the damage and get the effect, so in Exodus , I created the card Anyway, I was designing Urza's Destiny when I thought of combining Ophidian with the saboteur ability
Its going to be nice to stick to a 75 and work on getting Maverick back to a formidable threat in the Legacy metagame
Winter is the best commander to use with Death Toll, but there are two other potential commanders
If a player responded to the ability by removing creatures from combat, this may be different than the number of creatures that were attacking as the ability triggered.
However, for some abilities, like indestructible and the ability granted by Belligerent Sliver, having more than one instance of the ability doesnt provide any additional benefit