In fact, shes the worst at protecting herself, because she encourages you to go on the offensive without producing tokens (as Angrath, Captain of Chaos does)
Adkison was impressed by RoboRally but considered that it had too many logistics and would be too risky for him to publish
Being able to find them with things like Tribe Elder and Search for Tomorrow is a very big deal
Rhystic Study (blue, 3 mana): Taxes opponents' spells into free cards
I might even play this in a deck that wants to attack early and often for profit, and will be considering it for my Yuriko, the Tigers Shadow deck
giving other creatures the ability to generate tokens is nice, but I feel like poor Nick might just eat cheap removal and not accomplish a lot