Keeping your life total high wont protect you from potentially dying via poison counters, and thanks to its ability to gain Haste, Skithiryx threatens to deal a bunch of damage out of nowhere
Combine this lack of refunds with a constant onslaught of new set releases, which is only exasperated further with Alchemy's exclusive supplementary sets now introducing even more cards with every new release, and the end result is players who simply can't afford to play Magic Arena the way they used to
Pros & Cons Guaranteed 6 rares/mythics per pack, including foil-etched legendary
This can do a ton of damage if the permanent's mana value is high, but you'll wind up losing that permanent unless you can bring it back from the graveyard
It's very strong in decks that need to dig, fill up the graveyard, want to force foes to discard, and loads more
Reanimation is a famous and quite powerful black archetype with cards like Entomb, Griselbrand, and Animate Dead