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You can't take actions to make that token into a creature after it has entered the battlefield

This is why the gap between a raw copy and a psa 10 first edition charizard remains one of the largest in the hobby

Anathemancer punishes them severely for this with a deadly early creature and the promise of a much bigger hit later down the lineone that can't profitably be countered and can't be stopped with discard, which will force many control decks to consider alternate means of dealing with the problem such as an Identity Crisis

He protects himself, he draws you cards, and he even has an effect that will get pretty close to feeling like removal