This ensures that you'll constantly be refreshing your hands as you cast your various under-costed high-toughness creatures (as creatures with defender can be significantly cheaper than those without it), meaning you'll always have ample options of spells to cast during your turn
The abilities of Gods function as long as they're on the battlefield, regardless of whether they're creatures
Be it a reanimator deck that needs self-mill, a storm deck, or a Splinter Twin + Pestermite combo deck, blue is usually involved somehow
There are times now where you can drop Sorrows Path early in the game and threaten to use it to mess with everyone elses combat math for the remainder of the game
If the equipment itself is destroyed then the reconfigure creature goes to the graveyard
It plays a grindy game, shrinks opposing Goyfs, and does wonders handling Snappy/Souls (both of which are hallmarks of value-driven strategies that will seek to gain an edge in the mid and lategame)