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This Esper commander is sitting at the cross-section of a lot of different archetypes: lifegain, spellslinging, token-making, +1/+1 counters, and even cats and wizards, if you're eyeballing the creature types

Its likely that Justin Murray took inspiration from the original goyf, Ice Ages Lhurgoyf

Moreover, like every Pokmon except psychic and normal Pokmon in generation one (due to balancing issues, psychic and normal Pokmon did not really have weaknesses for practical intents and purposes), the three starter Pokmon had strengths and weaknesses

Many black decks in EDH win by assembling a lifegain/life drain combo

It was something much more exciting than the typical Core Set, and felt less like a collection of random designs based on high fantasy all thrown together in one set (though there was still plenty of that)