I also love that this is a potential loot engine, giving you some extra ways to put desirable cards into the graveyard for a deck like Soulflayer while creating an alternate threat that can draw some cards when games go late
If you have two copies of Doubling Season, or a Mondrak, Glory Dominus and an Anointed Procession, for each token you create, you actually create a total of four after the effects resolve
When playing in paper, manifesting a DFC would normally leave the reverse side of the card exposed, but checklist cards and sleeves exist to solve this problem
(Equipment, Auras you control, and counters are modifications.) The +1/+1 counters on Costume Closet won't affect it unless it somehow becomes a creature
Card Name Blue, Loyal Raptor Mana Cost Type Legendary Creature Dinosaur Rarity Rare rules Text Partner with Owen Grady, Raptor Trainer (When this creature enters, target player may put Owen into their hand from their library, then shuffle.) For each kind of counter on Blue, Loyal Raptor, each other Dinosaur you control enters with a counter of that kind on it
Before this change, Wizard Mentor was a first pick card which could save your creatures from creature kill spells, allow you to reuse the bevy of 187 creatures in the format (Ghitu Slinger, anyone?), and at worst case scenario allow you to play emergency defense