Last month, the Final Fantasy crossover set released an extremely exciting MTG commander, Sephiroth, Fabled SOLDIER, that is more or less Blood Artist in the command zone, and it is the driving force behind Tombstone Stairwell's newfound popularity
For instance, you can't run both SpongeBob SquarePants and Jodah, The Unifier in the same deck
For the Izzet tempo deck that is a pile of problems
Mike Lim aka Daarken is another prominent exponent of these darker themes, with lovely cards like Shipwreck Singer and Bloodhusk Ritualist: Looking at these images, it might not be entirely unfair to guess that he's a bit of a Luis Royo fan
Only 1,100 of these cards were printed in 1993, and high-grade Alpha copies, particularly those graded PSA 10 or CGC Pristine 10, command top dollar
Its still gruesome to think about