It can be flashed in for cheap if your opponent attacks you widely, and adds a ton of energy counters on top of that
There were just 96 competitors in Paris for Europe, and 128 in California for North America meaning a total of 224 sets we know of
Also, there are only 36 lands in the deck, which is a bit low (you can fight me in the comments on this if youd like)
When measuring the two factors against each other, it turns out that there is usually one combination that plays best
In my day blowing up permanents en masse like this meant you were also giving your opponents 3/3 Elephant or Beast tokens
Swamp Mosquito was a 0/1 flyer that could not be ignored, as it gave opponents poison counters for not being blocked, again another card that worked well with Tawnoss Wand or Dwarven Warriors