It works as a silver bullet against certain strategies: Aggro decks hate it because creatures effectively lose haste, it slows down artifact decks that rely on churning out fast mana and rocks
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Old Magic was full of cards with body horror and abstract nightmare creatures, but Niall Silvain somehow manages to be creepier than most of them
It swells with counters, and can combine to shoot stuff, and it has flying as well
They aren't in the rulebook, but they are the language of the players
Bloomburrow itself is a very two-color centric format, with some slight splashing, so doing more gifting of treasure would have been hard to pull off in such an environment