Mickey can play Brooms for cheaper and return them to the hand when the cards would otherwise be removed from play, making it hard for opponents to get a handle on this novice spellcaster's mayhem
Most creatures with reach are defensive in nature, like 1/2 or 2/4, so Dhalsims ability to make creatures unblockable based on their power makes sense in a reach deck
You can read the whole story here, back from when Wizards initially banned the equipment in Standard, but the short version is that Skullclamp was changed from giving the equipped creature +1/+2 to +1/-1 late in development and slipped through the cracks
Wretched Anurid Rarity: Common TYPE: Creature SUBTYPE: Zombie Frog Beast CMC: 2 Mana cost: USD: $0.15 EUR: 0.25 TIX: 0.04 EDHREC RANK: 11157 (3/3) Whenever another creature enters, you lose 1 life.
This could be for you if your deck consistently has enough creatures to convoke it for 1 or 0 mana
For quite a while I have been unhappy with Gruul War Plow