This was one of those cards that a lot of decks were on the edge of playing, either because they couldn't quite get threshold reliably or they didn't want to splash one of the colors, inviting them to play a high-risk but high-reward game with their mana bases that both cost them games and won them games they had little right to win
Monastery Swiftspear is excellent because it has haste and hits harder with other burn spells you cast thanks to prowess
Next, vampires love +1/+1 counters
I dropped off the map around 2008, and when I returned in 2010, I started hearing rumors about a guy in my town with a most legendary misprint collection
The card on the bottom is a real one
Well also see support for many common black themes and some new ones, considering that the creature-type villain exists, and most Marvel villains are black cards in these sets, so theres plenty of typal support