It lets you split the cost and time your removal, and still gets the second trigger from the face commander too
This is definitely one of those commanders who can succumb to its own hubris
The card got printed almost exactly as Dillon sent it to me: It made for a really important design lesson: sometimes you need another person to break you out of your focus on how to make a card work
Considering how Ariel - Spectacular Singer largely carried multiple deck archetypes with the release of Lorcana: The First Chapter , the power of a character with a strong Singer count has been more than cemented
This power is redundant in 1v1, but in a multiplayer format, it offers a player a way to bypass the usual rules and sweep a win, forcing an interesting dynamic where other players need to protect Shinryus target
Making insignificant creatures into serious threats has a lot of value, especially if you tag creatures like Esper Sentinel or Captain Ripley Vance that care about their power