Chances are afterlife gives you a necessary blocker, other times you get spirits so that you can break stalemates
Well, for one, if you are a TCG (trading card game) player, the gold cards are usually much stronger than normal cards
If I buy a booster pack on a whim, thats 15 extra cards to input, assuming I keep all the cards
It cant be countered, its a 15/15 flier with protection from colored spells (which means protection from most single-target removal), it can put your graveyard back into your deck then go back into the command zone when it dies, and it gives you an extra turn when you cast it
You do this using the first activated ability
This observation is extremely necessary to differentiate Fourth Edition from Fifth Edition, which will appear in 1997