Still, this dinosaur is cheaper and has a decent body that can engage in combat, so I can see it overperforming in spellslinger decks or decks that run a fair number of combat tricks
The fact that the second card is so loosely restricted, and Force is so universal (and technically hard-castable) makes it playable in any fair blue deck, and so gives a large portion of the format the necessary panic button to discourage super-aggressive combo
With minimal effort you can create several infinite combos with his token generation ability, drawing tons of cards and quickly amassing an army
They have a long history and development going back to the Onslaught MTG set
The most common method is to simply run them dry of hit points, followed by milling their entire libraries, but perhaps the most insidious path to victory involves one of the oldest counters in the game's decades-long history: poison
MTGs Walking Dead cards still have an air of controversy surrounding them