It also interacts extremely well with Vigilance creatures, since those will be able to swing again on the extra turn regardless
93/94 is a format with very expensive and rare cards, many which fetches sums up to and above a thousand dollars
Your opponents are down to bounce, exile, sacrifice, and -X/-X effects, since dropping a creatures toughness to zero is not destruction
Thats usually irrelevant, but against reanimator, dredge, or delve decks it actively helps them
His protection being attached to an attack trigger is actually perfect, depicting how Cecil leads from the front in FF4's latter half, uniting his friends to stand against both his former kingdom and the cosmic threat of Zeromus
To wit, there are fewer weird bad cards