It has Vigilance, which is good for a 3/3 at 3 mana cost
I mean, if you are going to be turning into any creature type in the game, isnt Dragon the one youd do first
And if the owner of Nine Lives loses the game, that means it leaves the battlefield
While we just missed the window on [Card]Delver of Secrets[/Card], [Card]Toolcraft Exemplar[/Card] does a pretty reasonable impression here as a threat thats both cheap enough to come down before our counterspells and high impact enough to close the game in time
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Drawing cards seemed like the cleanest answer