The fact that it can also be sacrificed to protect your creatures from board wipes or targeted removal is just another thing that most creature-based decks with white will love
I'd like to close this with these two cards, The Rack and Cursed Rack , which are torturing this poor, poor dummy
And we have the pain fetch lands, lands like Mana Confluence and the Shock lands that all have a payment of some sort that you can use to dial up the blood counters very quickly
Kaalia of the Vast is especially good with it
Urza, Chief Artificer, Digsite Engineer, Bronze Guardian, Marionette Master, Myr Battlesphere, March of Progress, Cranial Plating, Tempered Steel 8+ finishers