And its clear that the designers had fun bringing the crossover to life (looking at you, Suplex)
In addition to hitting the board quickly, an easily abusable end-of-turn ability slapped onto a 5/4 creature makes for an incredibly threatening commander
They did things they had no right to do, and they did them at a mana cost you wouldn't believe
This does let you trigger Repartee twice, but there are lots of situations where a sorcery-speed blink effect does very little, even with the counter in the mix
Once the player has an Army token, further instances of Amass put a specified number of +1/+1 counters on it, with each counter representing a single Orc in the army
I know I need to put on a least one Loxodon Warhammer on my Colossus as it will give it trample allowing me to take out another player and the lifelink will keep me from being able to lose to damage