No one can try to destroy the creature you sacrificed to prevent you from casting this spell
17 Gyome, Master Chef It Looks Like Dinner's Ready In a color pair full of death, corruption, and decomposition, you'd probably not expect to find a commander that cares about serving up 'delicious' Food tokens
Players wanted to play the card game how creator Richard Garfield intended (even when he wasnt the one who intended it)
First, the "villainous choice" effect actually allows your opponents to choose impossible actions
Later on in the game where a cheap small dork is weak and where an inability to block is far more relevant you at least have the option to make as a 1/1 which may sound awful but is correct surprisingly often and makes the card far far better than a straight 2/2 can't block would be
Without heavily using the power artifacts you simply didn't have enough on theme playables to make a singleton 40 card deck and even when you did you were still rather light on the bomb payoff cards with just one Ravager and one Plating