is a reference to For Mirrodin!, Rouse is a hybriding of Flashback and Embalm, Sabotage was built out of Ninjutsu, Supply was a variant of Monstrous, and Intercept was modelled on Champion
I recently got back into playing Magic after about 15 years, and Im happy that my current more-mathematically minded brain is finding many ways of analysing the game (so expect more posts on this in the near future)
Dredge is one of the most powerful decks in Modern, even without Golgari Grave-Troll
If the copy is a permanent spell, it gains haste and "At the beginning of your end step, sacrifice this permanent." (A copy of a permanent spell becomes a token.) Any spell you cast will be copied if you pay the cost, not just one that requires targets
I get that the bigger creature nets more Food, but since the card is drawn mostly from Hansel and Gretel, who are children, it might have been cooler if the condition for two Food would be a power of zero
Good news, too: Exiling this Spidey from the graveyard allows you to put it back in the command zone, so you get the full range of abilities here