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You can give an indestructible counter to a creature thats attacking, you can proliferate, and you can move level up counters around, so theres plenty of interesting stuff you could do with Tidus
The deck starts by casting a number of efficiently-costed creatures that synergize well with Y'shtola's abilities
Then you can flip him when you control at least four Wizards like him and tokens and others too and then that creature type will double their damage
While they were in the set as individual cards at vision design handoff, hearing so much support for them ensured their place in the set and inspired me to put them on the same card since they were so often talked about together