all vampire cards mtg Top 10 Best Vampires in Vampire Nocturnus and other Vampire creatures you control get +2/+1 and have flying Vampires' Vengeance

Then we can proactively try to assemble those combos whenever opponents look like their shields are down, probably by casting one half and then reanimating the other with Winters end-step trigger

Add on the potential to do all that for just two mana if you draw this off the top of your deck, and you've got a card that is likely to see itself in many black decks whether they focus on reanimation or not

Rolling Earthquake Speaking of sweepers, Red also has a great one in Portal:Three Kingdoms

And well timed as there is the official MtG Final Fantasy Universes Beyond set releasing this year

I havent seen Time Reaper played at all, and I cant even really recommend it, but its still pretty rad

While that balance has shifted over the years (along with plenty of other archetype-defining cards that have come and gone), Mana Drain continues to find ways to make control viable, despite how intense of competition it faces