It gives you ways to make fun bluffing plays (more on that here) and is entirely combat-focused, both elements that improve the Limited experience
They cant be challenged You play actions and songs immediately by paying their ink cost, then discard them You can sing a song for free by exerting a character with dried ink that meets the song text ink cost At the start of your turn you ready all of your ink, characters, and items The first player to gain 20 Lore wins immediately
It is the card that will save you with mass removal, and it is among the best rattlesnakes of all time and a sweeping card that is often clinical in what it takes out, enabling you to occasionally keep going while devastating others
Rarely and only if specified by the card making the change, as in New Blood
Gravecrawler If Nether Traitor subverted the two-mana standard for these recursion abilities, Gravecrawler breaks that standard over its knee
Considering cards like Army of the Damned and Necrotic Hex just dump fodder on board like nothing, youll usually have plenty of cold bodies to feed to Bontu