This means you have to play a game of, Which legendary is the real legendary and which one is a Thing? Its a fun, flavorful minigame that makes me feel giddy every time a spell resolves
Creatures are more expensive than life a lot of the time, which is why this beats out the Deadly Dispute group of cards
If an object on the battlefield becomes a copy of Corrupted Shapeshifter, it copies the values determined by its enters-the-battlefield replacement effect
It works well because I run several cost reducers like Ugin, the Ineffable, so I can put them into play with Flood of Tears ability and replay most of my board immediately
If you have access to 12 mana, which is not terribly rare in a green deck late in the game, you can decimate your opponents
And sure, sometimes you want to liquidate a whole collection