It always trades up in mana and is an easy card to hold up, assuming the meta has enough 2-mana plays that its not a dead card
The plan is to play Dreadnought on turn one and sacrifice it
You just need a way to get more out of them, and you can do whatever you want with the ten best flicker cards in MTG though
Its funny to think about because Sorcerer cant outclass Elementalists threshold producing ability, nor can he out value Deathspeaker , and he certainly cant out power Battlemage
Horrifying body gore, impossible-to-detect infiltration schemes, and a (mostly) irreversible transformation into one of the most feared entities in Magic
But it's only playable as a one-off in Vintage (and formats that follow the Vintage ban-list, like Canadian Highlander), so we're giving the spot to Gaea's Cradle