In the middle, we can see a piece of Lore being created using magical ink
These cards are meant to provide that little bit of extra oomph, not support an entire tribal deck on their own
In theory, the card looks very solid and its potential will be determined by the number of unconditional sweeper effects in the format
Alternatively, you could use a card like Illusionists Bracers to copy the 10,000 Needles ability onto another creature, giving your opponent 20,000 needles to try to avoid instead
Its a finicky, high variance deck to begin with, and the results it put up recently have to be taken with a grain of salt considering that Steven Speck, who had been killing people on turn 1 with regularity, was DQed from a tournament for palming his starting seven
for six mana, you get a 7/7 with Monstrosity X that costs XX and one Green