That all adds up to a serviceable bread-and-butter effect thats mostly appealing for self-mill and self-discard decks
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If you have some counters and some mana, it makes combat anywhere difficult for your opponent and lets you pick off utility creatures, and the base stats help give you time to grind out an advantage with this kind of thing, especially if you have a lot of evolve or scavenge to keep it fueled
Then, I added what I felt was the most generic bonus we could give
While there were several competing styles of Survival decks around the time of its banning, the one that really ignited the controversy was Calebs Vengevine/Survival deck that would quickly put all its Vengevines into the graveyard, then play a couple of Basking Rootwallas for free, leading to extremely backbreaking assaults (frequently in the air, thanks to Wonder) that were immune to most forms of interaction
Hard cast it and youve won the game