mtg cards like hardened scales Similar to that many plus one +1/+1 counters are put on it instead. Branching Evolution: Doubling Season for

[27] Unstable has a small "border-matters" theme

Forsythe explains that Magic's R&D team has decades of rejected ideas to pull from, designs that were fun but werent suited for paper because they were too tough to track or couldnt easily be adjudicated, for instance

8 Animate Wall A defensive structure becomes an offensive threat in this early Ferguson piece, transforming a beautiful mountain landscape into the stomping ground of a granite-toothed stone snake

Its much more consistent than Call Forth the Tempest because it doesnt matter what you cascade into, plus the cheaper mana cost makes it easier to sequence this with multiple spells to get the effect you want