It turns out playing this on turn one can often result in it getting in for a lot of damage, and the life it repeatedly gains you can also trigger a bunch of different payoffs
Honestly, poison's not a huge selling point of the card, since the front side already does so much, but the option's nice to have and it's a very stylish way to take someone out
Desert will actually be retconned to be a land sub-type in Amonkhet, making a lot of the desert-like lands here gain the Desert sub-type retroactively
Lego went through a similar awakening over the last decade, where now adult-focused sets make up a huge proportion of its business and I genuinely feel that Pokemon could do the same
In some unusual cases, you may end up putting the appropriate counters on more than one permanent
It toes the line of enshrinement in the format like Sol Ring even though it also plays with the unfun play patterns and reduction in diversity traits that banned cards have