For this strategy, Ninjas Blades is a way to discard any cards that we'll reanimate afterwards
If casting spells is how you win the game, then the inverse must also be true, and denying your opponents the ability to cast anything can greatly increase your chances of victory
While Animate Library turns your library into an artifact creature that slowly loses power over the course of the game, animating it on turn six is very likely still giving you a 20+ power creature
1 Traditional foil borderless or extended-art main set card, mana foil card, traditional foil Japan Showcase card, traditional foil Special Guests card, or fracture foil Japan Showcase The breakdown is below: This can be 1 of the 43 borderless rares (34.5%) or 17 mythic rares (6.8%, including 5 borderless planeswalkers)
Pretty much all of these cards are interesting in their own way, but as always some are better than others
Lightning Bolt The classic red spell still holds up in EDH