If a creature has a power of 5, it deals 5 damage to any creature who chooses to block it in combat
When it enters the battlefield, you gain three life and also three energy counters
Pillage the Bog In 60-card formats it takes 10 lands for Pillage the Bog to be Assemble the Team
"Free" counterspells - ones with alternate casting costs beyond mana - always have the potential to warp a metagame or create a new deck archetype
This is useful if youre going to really commit to the Rogue theme or just mess around with whatever Creatures you feel like
If you need a bit more of a push to maximize your convoke triggers, you can play the Invasion of Segovia, which, when it flips to Caetus, Sea Tyrant of Segovia (a very impressive name for a 3/3 creature), it gives all your noncreature spells convoke, letting you bust out some combat tricks when you're normally tapped out