While 1/1s will take some time to whittle down life totals, cards like Favorable Winds and Sprite Noble can add significant power to your board for very little mana, turning a bunch of unassuming creatures into a dominant board
While Moat isnt always the most powerful card, there are plenty of flying creatures in Magic, you can shut down plenty of creature-based decks
On the plus side, Stone of Erech is a 1-drop, which is essential for such a strategically narrow card
Since each player sacs a nontoken creature, you know that theyre losing something good and youll get the best creature sacrificed back, at least
It intrinsically doesnt always work the way you want it to
Cards like Fleet Swallower and Mirko Vosk, Mind Drinker mill your opponents rapidly