probably not bad in a budgety Animar, Soul of elements EDH deck. In that situation, he's essentially:
This fool-
UG
kicker: X
flying
if you paid the kicker, ~ enters the battlefield with an additional X +1/+1 counters
P and T equal to the number of +1/+1 counters on animar.
Posted By:
Three_Toe
(10/16/2013 3:40:00 PM)
You get flexibility at the cost of always being underpowered and a color restriction. He also tempts you to use all your mana, denying you counterspell/giant growth mana that could defer your opponent from putting stuff out or attacking you.
However, you also get this card in the colors of Mana Plasm and Prophet of Kruphix. He also triggers ETB/Dies for 
.
Though you're able to pump him to an insane amount off a Plasm, or give it pseudo-haste with the Prophet, the prospect of casting this thing as a 2/2 vanilla flyer for four for the early part of the game makes it pretty crappy.
tl;dr: Possible finisher if you've got bazillions of mana, but you could do better.
3/5
Posted By:
jerkoid
(11/18/2013 4:33:42 PM)
Sure he's never on curve, but consider him in Commander, the delightful land of too much mana and nothing to waste it on. He can be a hilariously big creature there, and Vorel of the Hull Clade makes him magically ridiculous!
Posted By:
SirLibraryEater
(2/5/2014 10:20:06 AM)