Protect your life while gaining card advantage, gather your pieces, and push through like a true black deck
Its not ideal, but its a practical way to turn your cards into something that helps you in the moment
They gave me a long list of things we technically were able to do that Magic didn't currently do
At least up until some years ago, when collector sleuths got hold of pictures of 16 out of 17 of the original print sheets from Richard Garfield
Construct tokens are also very popular, largely thanks to being made from Urza's Saga and Urza, Lord High Artificer
A question that Gerry Thompson once asked me still resonates with me to this day: "How many converted mana cost (mana value) 3 or higher creatures have impacted recent Standard without having some form of immediate effect on the game?" The list is a lot shorter than I would have guessed