However, when Urzas Saga came along, The Abyss got a major upgrade, thanks to the printing of what was once considered the best creature in Magic: Morphlings untargetable ability meant it could survive a The Abyss indefinitely, while also jumping over Moats from time to time
Abaddon the Despoiler Annoyed Altisaur Apex Devastator Ardent Plea Aurora Phoenix Averna, the Chaos Bloom Bigger on the Inside Bituminous Blast Bloodbraid Challenger Bloodbraid Elf Bloodbraid Marauder Boarding Party Call Forth the Tempest Captured Sunlight Cascade Seer Dark Apostle Demonic Dread Deny Reality Dreamroot Cascade Enigma Sphinx Enlisted Wurm Etherium-Horn Sorcerer Ethersworn Sphinx Flamekin Herald Forceful Denial Garbage Elemental Heralds of Tzeentch Imoti, Celebrant of Bounty Ingenuity Engine Into the Time Vortex Kathari Remnant Let the Galaxy Burn Maelstrom Colossus Maelstrom Nexus Maelstrom Wanderer Meteoric Mace Natural Reclamation Noise Marine Quandrix, the Proof Rain of Riches Sakashima's Protege Shardless Agent Skyline Cascade Sloppity Bilepiper Smoldering Stagecoach Stormcaller's Boon Sweet-Gum Recluse TARDIS TARDIS Bay The First Doctor The First Sliver Throes of Chaos Violent Outburst Volcanic Torrent Wild-Magic Sorcerer Wildsear, Scouring Maw Yidris, Maelstrom Wielder Zhulodok, Void Gorger
The latter is really good with the recursive dorks, be that Butcher Ghoul style or Gravecrawler
There are a lot more cards out there for graveyard hate and this card actually comes in a precon deck built around stealing your opponents stuff from the yard
Forsaken Miner and Pitiless Plunderer achieve the same effect, as each -1/-1 counter you put on an opponents' Creature is a crime
Even as a relative journeyman in MTG, I tend to assume certain knowledge or forget important contextual information that I take for granted
