He transforms when he has two or fewer loyalty counters
There are plenty of games where they come at you too strong and fast for the Orb to make any difference and would have been much better as anything else however in any game that is at all close the Orb will make a turn or twos difference and swing the game in its controller's favour
The list is heavy on removal options, cards like Brawl, Be Prepared, Sisu Empowered Sibling, and Maleficent Monstrous Dragon are great control options to slow the opponents strategy as you shift the game in your favor
In exchange, you make a token copy of it, giving that token haste for the turn, but in exchange, you have to exile it at the beginning of the next end step
The Spike Sadly, if you like the sound of this synergy with Toph, youll now have to pay a pretty penny for Equinox
// Flying As this creature transforms into Shinryu, choose an opponent