Players loved it on both a storytelling and gameplay level, and since then, Transform has become a deciduous effect to add fun mechanical depth to other sets, with or without a horror theme
It is very helpful to banish certain cards from the graveyard because many deck engines are centered around usage of the graveyard
This combo, which is easy to assemble with Scavenger's Talent, used to be fruitless in the face of Vein Ripper, as your opponent would drain you twice as fast
Why would you protect your lifepoints with a card like Magic Cylinder when you could be using a card to setup your gamewinning combo like Soul Charge or help create an unbreakable field with Traptrix Myrmeleo instead
The face commander, Brimaz, Blight of Oreskos is fantastic, giving you an Incubator token whenever you cast either a Phyrexian or artifact spell