To do this, they decided they needed to create three distinct products, each with a different path a new player can take
If you are capable of healing your cards, through items, actions, or character abilities, and Beast, Tragic Hero has damage on them at the start of your turn, you can let them attack and then heal them, allowing you to still benefit from the increased strength but keeping them healthy enough to stick around
If youre running expendable tokens (like, I dunno, Treasure), you end up with a nice little card advantage engine
III Draw two cards for each opponent who controls fewer creatures than you
Revised Edition was released on 04/11/94
Being notoriously hard to remove, it pressures tables over time and pairs naturally with the best MTG cards that reward long games and repeatable effects