Whats worse, the fail-state is a 0/4, unlike the Sentinels, which at least had the decency to still hit for two
There's a new most expensive Magic: The Gathering x Final Fantasy card, as this Golden Traveling Chocobo sold for $40k on eBay - and there are 76 more in the wild The Final Fantasy Magic: The Gathering set is the top-selling set in history, and its Traveling Chocobos are popping off on the secondary market
These creatures rarely get much credit, compared to the powerful cards they're usually enabling, and I think that's a shame.
Its a small creature that may be pumped and has a little punishment for your opponent when it dies
Warden of the GroveWarden of the Grove is the clear best card among all of the enduring ones: it's cheap and easy to cast and it snowballs out of control very quickly
Being more general and touched on already for the most part I will briefly state why these mechanisms improve the game