Once you flip him into Ifrit, you get a 9/9 that immediately fights another creature
You want to play a slower, more controlling version of Vampires Your deck can generate tons of mana to sink into her ability Your playgroup either doesn't run a ton of removal or you have consistent ways of protecting her from removal (e.g
Bazaar of Baghdad is incredibly valuable and powerful because, similar to Library of Alexandria, it makes any deck better
Stack your triggers correctly, and youll have yourself another 10,000 power creature, but this time, it has trample
This may reflect what some Wizards staff members wished the original design had been like, and digital magic avoids all the issues of changing the paper cards so radically.
Sure, lifegain wasnt a theme, but Apocalypse provided the first glimmers of what would become perhaps the most consistent white/black theme