For example Discover counts as point, Brainstorm counts as 1 point, while Skullclamp counts as 2 points, as it is one of the best cards in the game in the right deck (one that is full of small creatures and /or produces many 1/1 tokens)
From a technical standpoint, use foreshortening, cast shadows and reflected light to give your characters volume and depth
Five mana for a 2/2 seems terrible until you add first strike and deathtouch to it and all your other creatures
Being a kid, I took their opinions as gospel
Perhaps Youve Met My Cohort If you put this scheme in your scheme deck, you must, by all means, have an expensive planeswalker in your main deck
Generally you can transform a card if you can meet the condition to transform it