This amount of life lost, combined with having to make it through three turns of your opponents before using the cards (unless youre specifically a deck built around maximizing it, including cards like Borne Upon a Wind), makes for a dangerous game
Theres a true arcane feel to it: magically enhancing your creature in a bevy of ways, be it stats, keywords, or some great effect
Dice Rolling Rolling dice is a fantastic part of the D&D experience, so Ive squeezed in a few of them into the deck
Venser also has plenty of extra support in Phyrexia: All Will Be One from cards like Staff of Compleation, which appreciates the incidental Lifelink, and Scheming Aspirant, which helps you snowball even faster
Theres a very popular deck in Pioneer known as Greasefang, too