Especially when compared to the dark atmosphere of Yen Sid's card
From day one, players could risk their own Magic: The Gathering cards for a chance to win their opponent's
For me, the tipping point is in the card type creatures are just much better than sorceries, adding the utility of attacking and blocking, paying sacrifice and convoke costs and everything else you need a body for in Magic
If you pay the five mana and give an opponent a card, you get to make a 1/1 token copy if that creature was nonlegendary, enjoying that creatures undoubtedly killer EtB effect all over again
Pay the overloaded cost of seven mana and the word target becomes each, meaning every nonland permanent that your opponents control goes right back to their hands while yours stays put
Back in the original Innistrad , the Delver started out as an ordinary human albeit one with an intense fascination with doing experiments on insects