Every reprint has repurposed art to match its respective story, and each deck tries to capture certain iconic events, characters, villains, etc
It also massively improves your first combat by giving your creatures first strike and untapping them, which allows for much safer and potent aggressive plays
This excellent card-drawing artifact is one of the cheapest ways to turn a 1/1 body into two cards, and once your tokens are slightly bigger, you can turn them into more efficient threats
With good all-around stats and the Detective class, hes versatile enough to be used for questing, but also draws when he banishes in a challenge
First, the champion, playing Mono-Black Necro Control: Creatures (7) Lands (23) Spells (30) 4 Nevinyrral's Disk 1 Hymn to Tourach 4 Necropotence 1 Ivory Tower 4 Dark Ritual 4 Drain Life 3 Stupor 2 Mind Warp 3 Contagion 1 Serrated Arrows 2 Demonic Consultation 1 Zuran Orb Sideboard Then, in third place, representing the aggro decks of the format, Brian Hackers Bad Moon Necro: Creatures (19) Lands (21) Spells (20) And then finally carrying on the fine tradition of B/r Necro-decks, Chris Pikula, who actually increased the red presence in the deck with Incinerates and multiple maindeck Shatters (Winter Orb, Howling Mine, Serrated Arrows, even Black Vise, Ivory Tower, and Zuran Orb were worthy targets)
This helps you in the long run, as when an opponent uses a spell or ability casts using mana from a Treasure, you put a +1/+1 counter on any creature and draw a card