Even if you don't flip it, and even if it comes a little, it makes all your instants and sorceries cheaper to cast
Diseased Vermin might make for an alternate rat if you must have a rat, especially if you can give it evasion somehow, and it works with lifelink
If Dockworker Drone has -1/-1 counters on it when it dies, that ability will include those as well
The aura Favorable Destiny is dirt cheap, and provides her with Shroud as long as you control another creature, while the shroud-granting equipment Lightning Greaves and Whispersilk Cloak are more expensive but very useful for any Voltron commander
Enchantment auras can also augment creatures, but experienced players know that if an enchanted creature dies, the aura goes with it, which is the opposite of proper card advantage
If youre playing a fast deck, by turn 2 youre probably looking for a KO