To balance out a creature with defender's inherent weakness, they often have useful effects or other abilities to incentivize you to play them
A tapped black source is kinda eh, and Wraith typing is narrow, BUT Granting a creature shadow is very strong
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You also cant make slightly better cards since that would harm the game balance, considering most cards in the reserved list are already pretty powerful
Soul Spike Soul Spike looks pretty inefficient at first glance, but it can be a pretty nice combo piece in decks that utilize Necropotence or Necrodominance
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