This card once was worth upwards of $50, and until Jose Canseco came along, it was the most valuable regular-issue 1980s card in the book
Paired with Number 31: Embodiment of Punishment, the two can lock down the game by forcing the opponent's monsters to attack them and make them lose Life Points that the controller would've lost
A great way to take advantage of this is, of course, by using persist creatures, where the counter counteracts the persist ability while also buffing the rest of your creatures
Not the best thing to flop down on turn two as even the small activation cost will hurt your curving and a 1/1 doesn't get much done in battle
It is a bitter-fought battle between two rivals who clearly hate each other
Conversely, it is possible to forcibly target cards of a specific race to cards of other races