Their creatures are all things you can kill without throwing multiple cards against them
Its Debut Performance Ability , letting it strike immediately if you go first, is a rare and valuable trait for setting momentum
Tergrid, God of Fright / Tergrids Lantern Tergrid's Lantern, the less played version of this card, is a real punisher card that offers your opponent a repeatable bad choice
If it stops being a creature (most likely because something happens to Animate Library), Auras will go to the graveyard and Equipment will fall off but remain on the battlefield
In that same set we have the book, Afari , Tales referenced as well
One way is that the first player to collect 20 or more Lore wins the game