He comes in indestructible and his ability automatically triggers at end step, so this feels sort of like an Etali where you pay one mana more to guarantee at least one trigger while also draining your opponents for a bunch of life
It may only be a 3.8% spike, but thats still a $18 profit
Do you want to flood the board with tokens, generate more mana than all your opponents combined, or cast something enormous and ask the table to deal with it
Oozes don't often come with evasion, so this deck absolutely needs ways to turn a big, oozy army into a win condition in the many, many games I expect to have where I don't find my Food Chain
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