If you want to turn creatures sideways while accelerating, then Sword of the Animist might be the perfect tool for the job
She also gives your creature tokens powerful combat abilities , which makes them much more effective at attacking and defending
(2023-02-04) Conversely, replacement effects that apply to the number of counters put on a player can modify the counters placed this way
Combined with a playset of Temur Battle Rage and multiple copies of Become Immense, the deck would regularly get a Splinter Twin-esque win out of nowhere with a big, double-striking trampler
For our purposes, it's close to a perfect land: It enters the battlefield untapped, giving us a turn-one Siren Stormtamer or Deadeye Tracker while helping us cast a two-drop of the opposite color on the next turn, like Kitesail Freebooter or Kari Zev, Skyship Raider
This means that although the new set has a lot of top-down designs intended to evoke mechanics from the Final Fantasy series, these tend to look and feel like Magic mechanics, and we expect to see at least a few of these concepts return some day