Rydias Return Rydia's Return has an Overrun rate (albeit with no trample), and it even acts as a double Nature's Spiral when that isnt good enough
At this point, every other card game has some form of competitive online version
Conclusion To me, Lifelink has always been one of the more satisfying mechanics in Magic because it does something players never get tired of: not losing the game
It can be fire damage, lightning damage, or poison damage
While we don't have to mulligan until we find an engine piece, these are the cards that make the deck powerful, so a medium hand without a Sram or Spiritdancer is often worth mulliganing, especially with London mulligans making it hard to have a truly unplayable six-card hand, in the hopes of finding a Kor Spiritdancer or Sram, Senior Edificer
So, the two went back and looked harder