Notably, this card has no limitations, so if youve spent your turn producing ample Elf tokens or dropping tons of one-drop Elves (both examples with summoning sickness), you can tap them all down for loads of mana
You can have draws where you keep your opponents creatures at bay, but both of your clocks are rather comparable, and Auras will win a race thanks to obscene amounts of Lifelink
But, after much discussion, everyone over at SQUARE ENIX decided that invoking the nostalgic love for FINAL FANTASY VI, even in the smallest ways, is the purest version of this collaboration
Even if Essence Channeler gets removed, you can just move the counters over to another creature so all the stat increases don't go to waste, turning a completely different creature into another threat your opponent will have to deal with
Learn was showcased on the Pop Quiz card, which lets players draw a card before also Learning - which is either discarding a card to draw a card, or fetching a Lesson from "outside the game" (in play, this means the player's sideboard)