Heliod, Sun-Crowned Even if youre not trying to go infinite with the Walking Ballista combo, if you care about lifegain, you want Heliod, Sun-Crowned in your deck, or in the command zone as one of the best mono-white commanders
If you reach the ultimate, it gives you an emblem that brings back any artifact that dies
Plays the same as the Japanese version but in the English language
Black decks are usually okay with paying life and sacrificing creatures as alternate costs, but Rankle, Master of Pranks and Dire Fleet Ravager will both hit you pretty hard
OTJ and its Commander precons turned committing a crime into a game action and feature cards that reward you for crimes
While there have been more combo-oriented Goryo's Vengeance decks, the basic strategy of "put a large creature in graveyard" and "bring back said creature very quickly" has never translated to Modern because the cards were never there