Not only did Shadowmage Infiltrator perfectly capture Jon Finkel's face, but it allows a player to slowly win the game through difficult-to-block card advantage and trivial but eventually critical amounts of damage
Thanks to Backup, you have a good chance to bring something back the turn you play it, and you can get something back every turn once it can enter the fray itself
Theyre also pretty much always going to be good thanks to the incredible mix of low-cost, hard-to-kill creatures, card advantage and general buffers
It's not the first instance of a combo in a precon, as Duskmourn s Simic deck featured a loop with Yedora, Grave Gardener, Sakura-Tribe Elder, and the commander, Zimone, Mystery Unraveler
Burrowing isnt super useful, and has more or less fallen off
Since its indestructibility comes in counter form, you can use proliferate so you can activate its second ability and keep it safe