Just give them some power upgrades or get a lot of little Saprolings to spread the damage out, and youll have yourself a commanding board
While this hasn't affected the power level concretely, it has given Wizard's designers more room to play with theme and storytelling through cards and mechanics
Neither creature will deal or be dealt damage
If an effect allows you to cast Collective Resistance without paying its mana cost, you'll still have to pay the escalate costs if you choose more than one mode
While it is probably good enough in a deck that is built on the theme of +1/+1 counters, outside of this very specific archetype, adding a single +1/+1 counter to a creature just isn't enough value (even at instant speed) to make me add another tapped land to my deck, especially considering that green already has five MDFCs that I really want to be playing
Flamecast Wheel was an essentially unplayable uncommon