Most angels are mono-white and have more combat-related abilities like vigilance, lifelink, and first strike
It has an incredibly simple ability - whenever any opponent loses life for the first time in their turn, players place a +1/+1 counter on Valgavoth and draw a card
These alt-art versions were followed up in Fall 2021 with another 63 full-frame Japanese-language-only alt-art treatments, including Demonic Tutor, which may be my single favorite MTG card printing ever and I have to own it even though it costs over $100 and starting this newsletter may or may not have all been an excuse solely to acquire this card
There's a billion variations of this combo, but all of them involve a creature that produces at least one additional creature like Hunted Witness or Sengir Autocrat, sacrificing the creature to a repeatable (usually free) sacrifice outlet like Ashnod's Altar, getting the creature back into play with stuff like Nim Deathmantle or Decaying Soil, and finally a card that turns these infinite death triggers into a win like Blood Artist
In particular, Innistrad introduced double-faced transforming cards to reflect its horror inspiration
As with much of my list, even for a virtual vanilla creatureI will remind you that enters the battlefield triggers were not actually introduced to Magic until Mirage being close to or on curve for their size is enough for them to stand out
