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When Contagion Engine ETBs (enters the battlefield), its controller puts a -1/-1 counter on each Creature a target opponent controls

Theres simply much less reliance on nonbasic lands in a monocolored build, which minimizes the need to worry about playing enough Islands to comfortably return most creatures on the battlefield to their owners hands

In exchange for allowing another player to get a free copy of your spell, you get an extra copy of it

The fact that the token production is used to invalidate or mitigate a lot of creature removal is just icing on the cake especially when you consider Wilhelts ability works with all Zombies, not just nontoken creatures like most effects in this vein

Cateran Summons : A spell that continues the Mercenary chain, helping maintain momentum in Mercenary-focused decks