While it still shows up in many decks in Modern and Pioneer, it's just outside of the power level of cards we'll see here
The equipped creature scales in power based on Luxiors loyalty, and you can -2 the sword to grant the creature +2/+2 and Double Strike for the turn
It provides us at the beginning of our upkeep, with draw X cards, where X is the number of Zombies we control (with the downside of also losing X life)
This basically allows you to turn everything on your board into mana, and Ashnods Altar is a key part of any kind of deck that likes killing off its own Creature for profit
By now you'll find Jafar, Newly Crowned elsewhere on the interwebs, but he's going to be one of the best Disney Lorcana cards in an illusion deck, so it's worth showing him off too
The struggle centers on the control of crystals: sacred stones that are the fundamental source of all creation