One of the drawbacks to older Zombie decks was that getting this engine rolling could be difficult
Equipment cards include Armory of Iroas , which grants +1/+1 counters to the equipped creature, and Ancestral Blade , a good early-drop Equipment that also makes a 1/1 white Soldier
In addition to this, a big part of the reason these cards were so popular was because the mana in that Standard format was quite bad, to the extent that you were pretty close to wanting Attune with Aether in your decks even before the energy bonus, but once you have the energy bonus you might as well play Harnessed Lightning, which means you may as well play Rogue Refiner to power up your kill spell, and so on
Spark Fiend Other than the tiny artwork and gigantic text box, you may be wondering why this card makes my list
Stanng, Echo Warrior propagates the Voltron pile youve assembled every time you attack, which is kinda awesome (though it does limit you to non-legendary Auras and Equipments, for the most part)