A card that was hot last month might have cooled off, while another might be spiking due to a new tournament deck or a wave of nostalgia
Where theres tokens, theres also aristocrats throwing pawns under the bus in order to gain card advantage while slowly draining the life of your opponents in one-thousand-cuts style gameplay
Once you begin to cast the spell, losing control of Raul won't affect the spell
Bloodletter of Aclazotz Bloodletter of Aclazotz has carved out a niche for itself in some Constructed formats, especially with its partner in crime, Unstoppable Slasher
UPDATE: Self-Mill Theme After building this deck myself and playing a good amount of EDH games with it, I found the version of this deck that doesnt have a hard win condition to be difficult
However, this one also has a Morbid trigger