The decks commander, Riku of Two Reflections, really promotes this strategy by duplicating your instants and sorceries with its first activated ability (an effective Galvanic Iteration) and copying your nontoken creatures for
Wizards wanted fans to buy a bunch of packs in order to find that one card they were looking for, but what the company didnt expect was a secondary market to form for buying and selling those rare cards at wildly inflated prices
No one paid a lot of attention to Alolan Vulpix when it first came out
It can be sacrificed, exiled etc
it's a sweet target for counters, which he can also grant to other creatures, making it a very good mid game tech, taking advantage of the developing stages of the game with its respectable toughness
Theyre asked if many competitive players make the transition to the playtesting team, and they explain that the skills that make a good competitive player dont always line up with what makes a good playtester, because a playtester isnt always trying to win, theyre trying to combine all sorts of cards in weird ways to really test the limits of what they can do