Stroke of Midnight Better than a pumpkin We love a good bit of spot removal
Thanks to the amount of ramp, even in mono-black, paying for this card is actually a feasible feat
REAL It depends on how old the card is, what colors are on the front, and whether the card has a blue core
First and most important was Gravecrawler, a card that is normally worse than Bloodghast (although very similar as a 2/1 that can't block) but a major upgrade with Vengevine because instead of returning for free, you cast it from the graveyard for a single mana (assuming you control a Zombie)
we loathe drawing them when we are mana flooded
Overload [cost] means "You may choose to pay [cost] rather than pay this spell's mana cost" and "If you chose to pay this spell's overload cost, change its text by replacing all instances of the word 'target' with the word 'each.'" If you don't pay the overload cost of a spell with overload, that spell will have a single target