Those two cards combined led to the creation of a wide array of green-black decks that Sol Malka got named "Rock." Eventually that name was corrupted to include any green-black deck involving creatures but the creatures were never the key to Rock's success
Filler creatures Unfortunately, rules dont allow for an entire deck to be made of Steel Leaf Champions, so well need to turn to other efficient beaters to back them up
Both of these are really good, and can replace two other artifact ramp cards, Atarka Monument and Spit Flame
There are vanilla locations with high Willpower but no effects like McDuck Manor Scrooges Mansion
The amount of life you lose is determined by the mana value of the card in your graveyard, not the creature once it's on the battlefield
First, in a four-player multiplayer game, like Commander, you can gain 4 loyalty by EOTing him to draw four and discard four