Many of the cards are corrupt, manipulative, shadowy, and theres a distinct lack of heroes. Phyrexia encourages players to employ stealth techniques to defeat their enemies opting for poisoning their opponents
Many Inks also have interesting techs to help naturally increase your characters strength stat
Rapunzel, Gifted Artist has Shift 3 and can quest for two lore
For Instants and Sorceries, like Epicenter, you check for Threshold as the spell resolves
In both cases its super sweet that failing to find one of your eight Pathways to fix the third color doesnt leave you with a dead card in hand, but the quality of the splashed card is close enough to a dead card already that Im skeptical
For four mana you make one Human token