For six ink, or five if you Shift him, you not only get a particularly durable character on the board, but a card search
Typhoid Rats is a perfectly decent blocker for your early turns
Some good tricks to consider are the bloodrush cards, which channel a creature in your hand into a pump spell, Ghor-Clan Rampager, and Rubblehulk are good examples, and cards like Balduvian Rage, Tyvar's Stand, and Downhill Charge
The result is that if you can land both on the field you can fire the ballista ad nauseam, stacking counters on it and taking them off to inflict infinite damage and gain infinite life
These cards may well spike as a result, so hold them close to your chest, if you bought them
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