Later, in Fallen Empires, caving both to practical concerns and the average tabletop players innate need to collect everything even remotely peripheral to their respective game, MTG maker Wizards of the Coast released a sheet of small, square tokens in magazine The Duelist
Most notably, you want to include some ways to allow your creatures to damage opposing creatures outside of combat
Even outside of this protection from everything silliness, if you've ever played a game with Tidal BarracudaTidal Barracuda in play, you're well aware of just how much it takes over your average game
The payoff is definitely worth it as long as you can untap with it
So as long as development tested the Rats in high numbers to make sure it wasn't degenerate, we knew it was safe to break the rule (well, as safe as development can ever be the real world just has so many more playtesters.) Rule #4 Breaking Rules Is A Test For the Future When we do choose to break a rule, R&D tends to keep an eye on the card
Hada Freeblade Hada Freeblade is a simple but effective creature