Then theres the -10 biggie, making all our artifacts and planeswalkers indestructible then destroying all nonland permanents
Theres only spectacle for the sake of spectacle
Sure you can build a purple deck that actually has a lot of card drawing abilities but even without purple, competitive or experienced players dont have this issue
The deck is packing some other useful tricks like winning on our upkeep instead of reanimating with Mortal Combat, generating tons of mana with Songs of the Damned, one-shotting opponents with a surprise Soulshriek, or giving all our reanimated creatures haste to immediately win with Crashing Drawbridge
Grim Lavamancer I hadn't realized quite how many of the dorks around the time of Lavamancer have fallen off
This continuous expansion means that any definitive total count is merely a snapshot in time, quickly becoming outdated