Back in the day, it came about because I was trying to "fix" a problem card, in this case, one of the most notorious cards of all time: Necropotence was a card so broken that it warped Standard for well over a year, creating a time colloquially known as Necro Summer
After that, its about the tempo of casting it as an instant so that we can then have our resources free and ready to go on our own main phases
Rewarding people for gifting cards is about as wholesome as a Magic textbox can get, though imagine being a completely new player who stumbles across this card in a bulk box
A card like Volrath, the Shapestealer can copy an Army, but Volrath specifies that it becomes a 7/5 until end of turn, which means it survives and you can amass onto it
Archived from the original on April 17, 2019
The second deck I built around was an Orzhov enchantments and artifacts matter build around uncommon newcomer, Naomi, Pillar of Order