But the fact that Progenitus is legal in Standard and The One Ring is returning as a non-Standard-legal reprint in The Hobbit demonstrates that protection from everything, like every Creature that bears it, isn't going anywhere.
Creature tokens have been a part of Magic: The Gathering since the very beginning, with Richard Garfield introducing the type to enable the Wasp-spawning antics of The Hive back in Alpha
The Meathook Massacre The Meathook Massacre takes Zulaport Cutthroat and staples it to a Bane of the Living, both of which are effects aristocrat decks want ample access to
This is not a "good stuff" purple list like Monkey.D.Luffy OP5-060: these purple cards interact really well with each other, so they are only consistent in this strategy
Perhaps we should value Grasp of Darkness even higher as a result
Meanwhile, Vraska, Betrayal's Sting turns your foe's creatures into treasure