Whenever this creature is dealt damage, you gain that much life
Arcane Denial never made much of an impact on constructed formats of the time as it was around at the same time as many of the other strongest counterspells and being so old it has never been able to feature in the more current extended formats
Golos is a great way to enable Goodstuff because, again, he was a great way to both ramp, mana-fix, and cheat out spells
Spoiler alert: free spells are really, really good and as to not drive you all nuts repeating that, I'm going to say it once here
Anurid Murkdiver Six mana for a 4/3 with Swampwalk just isnt how you want to spend your mana when so many Swampwalk cards exist
Tovolar, Dire Overlord Finally, a good legendary werewolf Finally, we have Tovolar, Dire Overlord, who is the best legendary werewolf weve ever seen in Magic: The Gathering (and also only the second one weve ever seen, too)