This gives all of your other dorks trample, so that's nice on an on-curve dork
Craft The new ability craft focuses on two of the better parts of exploration: finding cool stuff and then building better stuff from the cool stuff you found
The sets art is lousy with various Warriors, Soldiers, and even Zombies brandishing spears
Most "Pox" decks in the modern era play Smallpox instead, but "Big Pox" is still a deadly card to inflict upon opponents
In general, follow-up sets in Magic can be a little more experimental, as players now have had some time to get the grasp with the foundations, and EMN really delivers on the new and weird front
There are tons of ways to get counters on creatures so Volrath can turn into them, but my favorite is Tetzimoc, Primal Death, which can repeatedly put a prey counter on any creature for just one black mana