With downtrading (trading a small number of cards for a large number of cards) you can ask for ore cards depending on how badly the other person wants your card
Making it less attractive to attack you incentivizes your opponents to attack the rest of the table
Often enough in cube this will be a must block as it easily kills in two hits against a fairly full hand and it is for this reason, all be it an unreliable one, that this is the number two choice of Sword
Favorable Winds, Windstorm Drake, and Cynette, Jelly Drover pump your entire flying army
Professor, we study history and my neighbor wrote his answer first
Nevertheless, it's caused the price to sky rocket compared to others, so if you pull one, great job