User blog comment:KittyNoodles/Blizzard Came and Took My Talents!/@comment-5424780-20120830030241/@comment-900674-20120830104017

That sounds like a fairly hit-and-miss setup. "Aha!" you think. "The rending claws of my Dire Polar Bear would be perfect for destroying this GenericBrandMonster!" And you summon the Dire Beast, and...

... it's a Dire Canary, with Ultrasonic Seed Eating and Six-Inch Talons, which the GenericBrandMonster accidentally steps on.

(And then later, at the bird show... well, let's just say you make a big impression. In the ground)