Please, Pokmon overlords
As you cast spells of any color or type, you can put a nice +1/+1 counter on your Thopter if the mana spent was greater than its power, which plays very nicely with the 1 power, and three cost and flying
Now, a barrage of upkeep triggers from Subversion and Palace Siege wont exactly lead to an engaging play experience, but they do reinforce a unique take on the archetype: slowly draining the table until one player finds themselves at a slightly lower life total than the others
This is perhaps an overly optimistic note on the card, but it does take comparatively less effort to transform the card once, and upon doing so Moonrage Brute is both a more formidable threat and more difficult creature to answer
While banned cards, such as the Black Lotus, remain expensive to acquire (even in unplayable, reprinted form), cards still legal for use in MTGs most popular formats often make a return in the card games latest sets