While we've had dominant decks and cards like Collected Company, Siege Rhino, Pack Rat, and Rally the Ancestors, those formats didn't see huge drops in attendance, and for the most part, by the time the outcry got loud, the problem card was already close to rotation (if you look at Rally and Bant Company, their most dominant times were in the two or three months before they rotated from the format)
Later in the game, the impact of this card is reduced a bit, since just one mana probably won't make that big of a difference on turn fifteen or more, but the explosive early game it can provide is impossible to ignore
Thanks to its stats, it becomes very difficult to remove with burn spells, forcing removal spells that destroy creatures to be used if the opponent wants to get rid of them
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synergize well with cards like Erkenbrand, Lord of Westfold and Haradrim Spearmaster
It doesnt completely shut down players like Erayo, Soratami Ascendant did