From an international perspective, as discussed above, there really arent that many foreign tourists in Japan whore dead-set on buying the newest, highest-demand Pokmon card packs anyway, what with the language barrier and the fact that organized Pokmon Card Game competitions generally only allow local-market cards to be used
Skimming through my Avatar: The Last Airbender cards, I realized that many of the ally creatures double as warriors
Not only can Moria's effect play a Thriller Bark card from the trash at a lower cost, this Warlord card gets access to the eight-drop version of the leader
Pour a ton of mana into this card and it becomes a Blightsteel Colossus, an indestructible creature that can poison a player to death in one shot
To get our heavy-hitters in the graveyard we've got Unmarked Grave, Vile Entomber, Final Parting, and Oriq Loremage to tutor them into our graveyard, or discard them from hand while killing something with Armix, Filigree Thrasher
Any time you would gain life, you gain one more of that amount, which isnt a ton, but adds up over time