It could also be the wicked artwork of this, previously, little-known or sought-after ally of Maleficent's
It's also another great way of dealing with indestructible creatures, as one of the few ways of getting rid of them is to weaken them down to below zero toughness through an effect like this
You can shut down whole decks with little to no way of your opponents getting around it
Here are just a few: One cool sidenote is that if you want to have uber-expensive cards like this and use them in a casual (not tournament) setting, you could buy proxy versions
The game begins by playing a number of different efficiently priced spin creatures, many of which have strong secondary abilities, including making more spin tokens (Arasta, Bread Weaver, Drider, Penumbra Spider, Twin-Silk Spider, etc
Also like Chrome Mox they do not let you directly cut a land and count more like one and a half lands (or half a land in the case of Mox) which leads to more tunable decks and more precise builds