Lizards can also be splashed in in order to get an extra reward out of combat damage
If instants or abilities change the powers of these creatures, the mentor trigger may or may not resolve depending on its power at the time of the second check
(Having hit $30 earlier in the season, Ojutai now looks like a solid pickup for the fall if decks that want him can figure out how to get around the sacrifice effects that have rendered him less effective.) The only other cards I offered up as solid picks were Zurgo, Bellstriker and Sidisi, and both saw some good early play before falling off the side of the metagame
Of course, there would be ways around this - like using the network only in the card detection and not in the recognition step, or generating synthetic training data - but Im getting slightly ahead of myself
Instead, these strategies are more aligned with Control
If you're playing a discard deck, transforming Temple of the Dead back into Aclazotz is easy since it only costs three mana to do so