Solemn Simulacrum doesn't look like much at first glance, but the combination of his effects creates a large swing in your favor, netting an extra land, a smoothing of colored mana, an extra land play, and replacing the card when it dies
The same idea applies to cards like Shilgengar, Sire of Famine
On the other hand, it is readily beaten by many Flying-types in the game
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Stuff like, "I want to draft a black aggro deck so gravecrawler looks good, hey look all of my other black aggro beaters happen to be zombies." What I think of as a real tribal deck, is a deck where each addition of the tribe to the board is building up this interlocking engine that eventually just crushes the opponent
If your card has some holographic foil on it, chances are its going to be worth a lot more than something that doesnt