You can find interesting new ways to utilize drawbacks, provide better upsides, or make him an even bigger monstrosity
Taking the first three turns off is crippling, and later on its still difficult to double-spell or hold up interaction with such clunky mana costs
I still to this day have books from that period where Im listing out Magic decks I want to make, or Im working on my own ideas for trading card games. A Warhammer 40K trading card game that Miller co-designed in 2001 with Luke Peterschmidt has roots in that era
If you do, Gogo and that creature each get +2/+0 and gain haste until end of turn and attack this turn if able
Because a card can just be from a plane weve never seen, a lot of slush art and art from new artists finds its way into core sets, and we get new and exciting things like GOOSE SOLDIERS
Commander is easier to enter because a single sealed preconstructed Commander deck gives you a complete playable deck