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Giving it haste and protection goes a long way, because otherwise youll play a 0/4 and youll have to wait a turn to use it the first time

Since most aristocrat decks have creatures that want to die, Apprentice allows us to trigger those effects while creating a 2/2 creature token

There is counterplay to both Dimir control and Boros Mentor hyperaggro, making no archetype truly dominant

It's a Swords to Plowshares that both exiles the threat and gains you the life from its demise, all for a comfortable one mana

Sure, opponents can see it coming, but they wont want to waste a removal spell on a mana rock thats going to disappear, anyway

On a basic level, you can flash in Gatta and Luzzu and block something big while targeting itself, and you suddenly have a huge creature