If you went off with Melodies then you probably should just be winning the game and not worrying so much on the incremental advantages Crusher provides
The deck combines Brimaz with a massive army of phyrexian creatures, many with strong secondary abilities
Ever since the introduction of creature types in Magics rules, decks that focus on a specific creature type have been incredibly popular
Ancient Excavation runs double duty, as its one-sided Windfall effect, giving me options and filling my graveyard
if youre out of cards in your library, one removal spell can kill you, and there are frankly better win conditions with an empty library
The reanimated target heads to the graveyard and the land is exiled, played, and you only really discarded one card and are now up a card