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It was invented by judges who wanted to play something low-key and social after tournaments were over

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For far greater detail, you can read the two-part article about planeswalker design that I linked to above

When Necromancy leaves the battlefield, that creature's controller sacrifices it

Decks that want to play counters are almost always control decks, and control decks would much prefer to gain life rather than cause opponents to lose life, so all things being equal they would have preferred to play with Absorb but there were other considerations that forced most of them down the black road instead

Duskmourn: House of Horror Duskmourn: House of Horror packs are polarizing in that some players were turned off on the horror theme from before the prerelease, while others feasted on the great horror themes