On top of that, if your creature has a tap to activate ability, activating the ability now makes your creature deal damage equal to its power to another creature
After the first set of cards in Legends and a few other sprinklings, many of which established that gold cards would be consistently more powerful than their competition, gold came into its own in Invasion block
I've also found that they tend to age pretty well, whereas a lot of old black borders develop those immediately noticeable white nicks in their paint that drives me absolutely nuts
And it can be surprisingly potent clock when games go long
For six mana, this 5/5 uncounterable flying Dragon Wizard has a deadly combo of abilities, allowing you to deal one damage to any target whenever you draw a card while drawing you a card whenever you cast an instant or sorcery
If you want to read the associated article, just put Bennie Smith and the commander name into Google and it should pop right up