Green has a unique capacity to destroy (or fight) anything, but not all the thing: Beast Within and Acidic Slime are great, but unless you're an enchantment, artifact, or bird, then you don't need to concern yourself with Green boardwipes
His payoff depends heavily on which villains you have to copy
The best thing Rhetoric does is protect planeswalkers or at least compensate you for them getting attacked
Honestly, poison's not a huge selling point of the card, since the front side already does so much, but the option's nice to have and it's a very stylish way to take someone out
Some great tribes have come and gone throughout Magic's history
It was a first edition card, making it part of the first batch of cards printed in the set