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This creature lets you cheat in creature or land cards whenever it deals combat damage to a player

Extort is interesting in EDH since each extort trigger will gain you 3 life, and that can be redirected further with cards like Sanguine Bond

Put two +1/+1 counters on it

Lastly, you can choose to build this this as a tempo deck, with more evasive creatures such as Malcolm, Alluring Scoundrel or Malcolm, the Eyes to constantly attack your opponents, while holding countermagic to protect your creatures and removal to keep threats in check

After the Defense Counters has been depleted, its owner/original caster re-casts the spell transformed