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Individually these effects are marginal: but combined they form a card that was so good, many non-red blue base decks started playing red just to get it (plus Flametongue Kavu, to be perfectly fair)

Equip Helm to Celebrant, make a new Celebrant on combat, attack and exert it, then repeat the process during your extra combat

I, of course, had other ideas

Overall, Animate Dead is a great card in a lot of black decks simply because it can give you double the value for your creatures, as well as your removal spells

While it is likely a rumor, theres the classic story of a player that tore up their copy of the card and let the pieces flutter to the battlefield, blowing up practically everything in play