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In Black decks, particularly Golgari (Green and Black) and Orzhov (White and Black), losing a little life and discarding non-land cards may not be the end of the world, given the number of reanimation cards on offer

If you are somehow generating one toughness tokens then it is incredibly efficient but even when your not it still offers great value and a variety of applications above and beyond pure card advantage

You might also consider Summon: Yojimbo from Final Fantasy for another effect of this type, though it is limited by being a saga

Toward the end of 2019 (so roughly 20 years ago by common reckoning), I published an article here counting down the new cards that had defined the year in Magic