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"The blood is the life

It also protects your creatures by stopping -1/-1 counters from being placed on them, though it strips infect from your opponents creatures to start with

It's a 4/5 with menace that forces opponents to sacrifices a nontoken creature or planeswalker

Its a mechanic that cares about certain card types , similar to how cards like Dragon's Claw and Aether Gust care about cards with a particular color

It helps you in the specific context of building, drafting and playing the archetype but it is also a transferable skill that lets you better appreciate other archetypes in other metas

Having played a few multiplayer games, it seems to work pretty well