Abrade is good enough without artifacts to target and an absolute life saver sometimes where there are
Meanwhile, his controller is made to draw a card and gain three life
The price of this card does vary depending on the serial number, but any copy is still worth an entire pay check
Sets come and go, but the core principle of play small creatures, attack every turn remains, a constant, necessary force to prevent every game from descending into Combo chaos or grinding on for turns on end
Well, I invented something we had never done in Magic before to showcase it: At one point I thought about putting this on a cycle of big bosses, but in the end, I felt it could just stand alone on Ancient Adamantoise as something splashy and unique and that would get some weird attention of its own