But its cards like Bandits Talent, Hostile Investigator, Rankles Prank and Aclazotz, Deepest Betrayal cards which exert pressure on the opponents life total and boardstate which are most important
The First Doctor The folks at EDHREC have The First Doctor way down at #14, but one thing makes it #1 in my book it searches up your TARDIS when it enters the battlefield and can even rescue it from the graveyard if it has been destroyed
Doubling ETB effects can make decks that rely on ETB triggers extremely difficult to deal with in little time at all
You make a creature that can make Treasures, you draw cards, and then you finally get a creature that can copy another creature for a turn
The one innovation was that, while Innistrad only had DFCs that were a creature on both sides (and one planeswalker on both sides at mythic rare), Dark Ascension had two DFCs that started as artifacts, one of which wasn't even a creature on the back face