The role that Macabre plays of essentially being free graveyard hate with no strings attached makes it quite powerful
The biggest drawback is that it cant deal any damage through an Aboreal Grazer and cant comfortably attack into something like Llanowar Elves
This Red leader has 5,000 power and the Slash attribute, an aggressive foundation that players have built on throughout the games history
War of the Spark cared about +1/+1 counters and loyalty counters
Professional grading through PSA or CGC can transform a 50 card into a 2,000 treasure when condition warrants it, but not every card benefits from the grading process
However, the last part of the ability will check how much life you've gained as the ability resolves, so if you've only gained 5 life this turn by the time the end step comes around, you could still gain 2 more life while this ability is on the stack in order to return the target creature card to the battlefield instead of your hand