But first a little about myself: I have been a longtime fan of Magic: The Gathering and collected cards from various sets over many years
Were clearly in a boom period where Wizards is focused on exploring this area of design space, and providing players with a lot of tools and payoffs around these keywords
Even if you arent comboing off with Gravecrawler, you can get tons of mileage sacrificing it to cards like Carrion Feeder and Yawgmoth, Thran Physician over and over
Another strange tidbit about this is that, while Gyarados was rated the equivalent of a PSA 10, the Magikarp was simply authenticated by PSA, but not graded
it simply wants to kill everyone at the table as quickly as possible
Plus, they are formed in a way that deceives the eye and integrated into the natural pattern of the Maiden back seamlessly