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The one drawback is that other players will wind up targeting him with direct damage or destroy creature spells

Unfortunately, its a nombo with a lot of cube-worthy equipment like all of the Mirrodin / Scars Swords, Grafted Wargear, and Umezawas Jitte, but thems the breaks

Blue decks that could certainly play prolonged, traditional control games, but could also just auto-win on Turn 5 by playing a powerful, hard-to-interact with creature that can block until it abruptly turns the corner with protection up

Proliferate lets you do just that, and multi-proliferate effects like Planewide Celebration can do it when your opponents werent expecting it

This card is still key to some of the best Standard decks in the Lorwyn Eclipsed cycle