While I felt that Crusades would be a massive boost for the Heroes, accelerating the clock and helping even up the mid and late game
I remember getting an easy 3-0 with a mono-black Mystery deck in Reno, and such things will be possible again
It's easy to disrupt, and you do need a creature worth pointing at (big, and ideally with keywords like lifelink or deathtouch)
The cardinal hastily dismisses his replacement, the dark knight Gafgarion, from the meeting, before walking around the table and personally offing him as the camera pans upward and we hear Baerts horrified scream
I regularly use this along with Ghost Quarter to emulate a Wasteland effect, and have managed to steal a lot of games when my opponents couldn't answer it
I never knew I wanted to beat down with non-Equipment artifacts and non-Aura enchantments that cost four or greater until today