Just getting it to the second stage and exiling a card every turn is already pretty good for a 1-drop creature youre building up your own Ragavan, Nimble Pilferer
Crawlspace, Silent Arbiter and Dueling Grounds all restrict the number of creatures that can attack and do so without breaking the bank
My vampire forces nearly took down my girlfriends cat army during the first few rounds of the tutorial, but I was finished off just three rounds after being left to our own devices
2 Traditional Foil + 98 nonfoil cards
I know that this explanation is definitely oversimplifying the term, but in older eras, games were stand-alone
To top it all off, one of the breakout decks from Pro Tour Lorwyn Eclipsed, Dimir Excruciator, ended up winning the entire event