Its a fairly ambitious but strangely potent strategy
The flexibility on this card is just too strong for it not to be an important two-drop in Red decks
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Ruin-Lurker Bat is a one-drop that would have made starter period me lose it, its so efficient and so powerful and its doing so much for just one mana, and back in the day that was considered so powerful and so dangerous because we were all working on bad math as to how long attacking twenty times took
Most decks with counters themes have white in there somewhere, whether thats a card with a black pip that gets partnered with Alharu, Solemn Ritualist, a Selesnya leader like Torens, Fist of the Angels, or even dark horse Noyan Dar, Roil Shaper
Or, you know, you could splash out $20 and grab yourself Gisela, the Broken Blade, who costs one more mana, nearly doubles the Thunder Bird's stats, is a legendary, and has Lifelink while also being a flying creature with first strike