It offers a lot of value for multiple different reasons, and even presents itself as a decent flier on rate in the scenario where your opponents dont have any activated abilities to take advantage of
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Almost always, it's mismatched expectations
The reason this seemed like a perfect fit was the archetype felt pretty red, and Minotaurs were red
Thats a lot of hoops to jump through just to get a legend onto the field, but at least it lasts until your next turn, so cards like Jin-Gitaxias, Progress Tyrant have a whole round to punish your opponents before they revert back to whatever they were
Gandalf the White, for example, is designed to mainly care about legends, but he can also break the famous artifact Isochron Scepter, as noted in this Reddit thread where users recognized the potential that Gandalf's ability adds to the Isochron Scepter
