The combination of janky old mechanics, splashy effects, and your unexpectedly huge commander will definitely earn some laughs because opponents simply wont believe whats happening
Both games have official formats that define the card pool that players may use when building decks, complete with ban lists and the like
These two approaches both protect against removal but ask different things of the rest of your deck and give opponents different incentives for when to bite the bullet and remove the warded creature
Although hopefully after the upgrades, it will be less of a miracle and more of a planned prediction
Some of this mechanical dissonance also recently caused a stir among Magic: The Gathering players when Norman Osborn, a human, was given the Goblin creature type simply because his supervillain name is the Green Goblin
Its roar is the clatter of a thousand bones