Diabolic Vision was one of the better gold sorceries, which allowed you to Look at the top five cards of your library and put one of them into your hand
Its not uncommon for red commanders such as Krenko, Mob Boss to have a stray Goblin Recruiter or Dockside Extortionist around to sacrifice and pay the cost for this spell, but the place where it will shine the most is in partner decks including Rograkh, Son of Rohgahh
With champion, any Elf could turn into But even with all our ideas, champion proved to be a bit hard to use
Making a flying drake token on each of your turns, and possibly on your opponents' turns, is strong enough
An 8/8 beater with trample and haste can punch through defenses quite well, and when The Balrog of Moria dies, you can exile a creature from each opponent at the cost of exiling the Balrog too