If you have five Goblins out, youre blasting a creature for five damage, which can generally knock out most creatures until you hit the late game
Coral Sword is a fair bit better, leaving behind a worthwhile permanent
(Ultimate Masters, for example, had 254 cards.) Wizards even showed off a few of those rares from the set, starting Blightsteel Colossus and Doubling Season, both in their normal frames and their awesome box topper versions
Given that Kuja, Genome Sorcerer is itself a wizard, it should also be relatively easy to transform it and double up all your damage pings
And the version from Dragons of Tarkir became a fan favorite pretty quickly too: If I fight, I might step on a butterfly
When Im brought on to a job where there is an established character, I do my best to honor everything in that characters design as-is and only put enough of my own spin to the linework and texture and color that Im true to myself as an artist