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I doubt that this was even that good when first printed, but a 7-mana 4/4 that you then need to pay to give flying (and the power boost is balanced by the toughness loss) just doesnt cut it in any format these days

To complete this defensive triad of cards, Zack FairZack Fair is a card we may want to play earlier than the others

in Sorcery is extremely challenging, if not impossible

Its not unreasonable to think you might just draw twenty cards, right there, and if your deck contains a very unusual amount of mana, you might not be far from drawing your whole deck (especially if youve got a couple of Dakmor Salvages somewhere in the mix, making it completely deterministic that you mill your deck, fill the battlefield, and set up some graveyard kill)