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Temur Battlecrier Temur cards grow on me more and more with every 3-mana 4-power matters creature
I'll have to give the answer I was given when I met Jim Henson (back in my Hollywood runner days) and asked if Bert and Ernie we're named after Bert and Ernie (the cop and the taxi driver) from It's a Wonderful Life: It may very well have been but no one remembers doing it consciously. Farewell to Arms In Unglued , black had a theme of forcing your opponent to restrict himself physically
The flavor text quote from the actual book lining up with 21 commander damage makes for both a book and EDH rules flavor win
You can go after something with particularly high toughness, or something with a powerful ETB ability that you want to trigger every turn
For example, if you control Tangle Wire and an opponent taps an untapped creature they control as part of the resolution of Tangle Wire's triggered ability, Icewrought Sentry's ability won't trigger