I was going to go into him being a fearsome foe in historic wars in Eriador, but I guess were not doing that now
These cards will come in handy if you happen to have The First Tyrannic War in play, as this gives a creature card with an X mana cost an extra number of +1/+1 counters equal to the number of lands you control
It can get more powerful based on your opponents, and takes whites infelicitous identity as a catch-up color the tendency for white cards to only ever bring you up to parity if youre behind, but never break parity and tweaks it to the right power level
Ive always been turned off to the 1/1 sports patches, because its so obviously contrived
Trickbind is great at stopping a player from winning and pretty inefficient at anything else, but really, thats what you should be using your counters for, so a tool thats only great at exactly that seems pretty interesting to me
Pack flexible answers