You may not be thinking about defenses at the 4-mana stage of a game, but the value of this elf archer is the pinging damage it can do
But even if you're not specifically a Final Fantasy game fan, there are tons of Birds throughout Magic 's history that you can now pull together in a powerful Bant Bird typal deck
Youll need to do some work because it doesnt enter prepared, and sometimes this creature dies before it can do any gravedigging
As long as you deal even one damage to an enemy creature, you can send it straight to the graveyard, regardless of how much toughness it has
Despite the existence of graveyard hate cards like Rest In Peace, reanimate decks, better encapsulated as "graveyard matters" decks in the modern age, continue to appear in the meta across every format
I typically find I get more value from a Sylvan Library in a deck without good reasons for a Survival