Because youre creating a bunch of tokens for little to no mana, Warstorm Surge will reduce opponents life totals pretty quicklyor if you want to live a little more dangerously, Pandemonium
Pongify is the perfect example of this
Giant Adephage makes 7/7s with trample, Omnath, Locus of Rage makes 5/5s that will deal extra damage when they die, and Crested Sunmare makes 5/5s just for gaining life
Consecrated Sphinx [c]Consecrated Sphinx[/c] may have the most powerful effect of all the cards well be mentioning today, but the steep mana cost holds it back a bit
At the time the card was released, those kinds of stereotypes were all too common in tabletop RPGs at the time, such as the Vistani in Dungeons & Dragons , or Clan Ravnos in Vampire: The Masquerade