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Any Phyrexians that managed to dodge or survive Ghalta's rampage found themselves set upon by vicious vampire conquistadors
Troll Level: Horned Troll Forest #269 John Avon is the best, but this is probably his worst forest
This would usually be enough to find Pandemonium and some combination of Phyrexian Dreadnought and Reanimate, plus the mana to play them And a Final Fortune might end the game before the opponent has even taken a turn(!)
Investing a lot in instants means you can do this during combat to prevent damage
We'll get the Vehicle sub-type much later, and Equipment basically streamlines a lot of the messiness and (in retrospect) poor mechanical flavour of a lot of these earlier artifacts, but it's interesting to see the roots of those newer mechanics in these earlier sets