You have no maximum hand size for as long as you control The Great Synthesis
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Flooding the board with tokens is a great reward for flickering stuff, and Genkus activated ability gives you a meaningful win condition
Shadow Urchin Shadow Urchin doesn't need to attack if your counter engine isn't online
It shows you exactly what type of opening hand people kept and puts everyone but your own in-game knowledge in plain sight of the entire table (and you can hide the fact you may have kept a mediocre opener so they cant judge you, ahem)
On the other hand, you can try to hold back and let one or two creatures do their work but then a Thragtusk threatens to come down, gains you five life, trades in combat one turn, and chump block another, easily buying three or more turns