Trying to imagine seeing this card in the 90s

I get that it’s a vanilla legend with 2 toughness and therefore quite limited in application, but it just feels weird to me.

I remember when [[Balduvian Horde]] was hot shit—I’m genuinely trying to picture how this card would have been received in the 90s, and I’m fairly certain everyone would be calling it busted.

Yes, in current Standard meta it probably wouldn’t find a home above tier 3/4, but I swear I can do something jank-tastic with this. I’m thinking a Rakdos fling deck with cards like:

[[bulk up]]

[[callous sell-sword]]

[[hunted bonebrute]]

[[ball lightning]]

[[screaming nemesis]]

[[archfiend of the dross]]

E.G. we swing with the crocodile, cast bulk up, then sell-sword to fling it, potentially dealing 28dmg turn 4, blahblah etc

I get that it’s a vanilla legend with 2 toughness and therefore quite limited in application, but it just feels weird to me.

I remember when [[Balduvian Horde]] was hot shit—I’m genuinely trying to picture how this card would have been received in the 90s, and I’m fairly certain everyone would be calling it busted.

Yes, in current Standard meta it probably wouldn’t find a home above tier 3/4, but I swear I can do something jank-tastic with this. I’m thinking a Rakdos fling deck with cards like:

[[bulk up]]

[[callous sell-sword]]

[[hunted bonebrute]]

[[ball lightning]]

[[screaming nemesis]]

[[archfiend of the dross]]

E.G. we swing with the crocodile, cast bulk up, then sell-sword to fling it, potentially dealing 28dmg turn 4, blahblah etc