Well, while it might be tempting to go for the easy win, make sure to send the bare minimum of creatures necessary into four open mana to close the game
It is incredibly difficult to get to a win through this card once it resolves
: Target creature loses all creature types until end of turn
You open your packs (which only had eight cards at the time) and put together a nice little blue-white flyers deck, a classic archetype, featuring Serra Aviary and Giant Albatross
The Black Gate doesnt even have real downside since it can enter untapped, and having the legendary type is usually all upside in EDH
In the old days of MTG, tapping a creature to deal a single point of damage was highly effective, and it used to cost three mana on a 1/1 creature without haste