Before this change, Wizard Mentor was a first pick card which could save your creatures from creature kill spells, allow you to reuse the bevy of 187 creatures in the format (Ghitu Slinger, anyone?), and at worst case scenario allow you to play emergency defense
Because the defending player distributes the damage, a creature with banding blocking a creature with trample means that all damage can be redirected to the creature, sparing the player
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This is different to Partners, who track the tax independently because they are physically two independent cards
TLDR The real boss fight is what happens after your alter goes into a sleeve: smears, sticking, and edge chipping
That power bump with infect is nasty