He protects himself, he draws you cards, and he even has an effect that will get pretty close to feeling like removal
Wizards of the Coast has been doing a lot in recent sets to give white good ways to close out Commander games and maintain its identity as the de facto go-wide aggro color
Anathemancer punishes them severely for this with a deadly early creature and the promise of a much bigger hit later down the lineone that can't profitably be countered and can't be stopped with discard, which will force many control decks to consider alternate means of dealing with the problem such as an Identity Crisis
The 1999 Mewtwo card has the most bids and the 5th-highest bid total in the PSA Vault auction, at the time of writing
Youll love playing Jund if you love sacrificing permanents, forcing your opponents to sacrifice permanents, and swinging in for filthy amounts of damage with demons, dragons, and warriors
When it enters, each player sacrifices half their creatures, including you, and Zodiark gets a surge of counters