If you want off-color lifegain, look at Bottle Gnomes, Filigree Familiar, Fountain of Renewal, Ivory Tower, Navigators Compass, or any other of dozens of artifact cards that gain life at two to three mana
Its seen competitive Standard play in formats that allow you to cheat it into play, and Commander players love it in big and silly blue decks like Jhoira of the Ghitu
It works beautifully with setup spells like Buried Alive or self-mill strategies that fill your yard quickly
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Now, this clocks in at nine because there weren't many expensive reprints, nor where there any major cards from old forgotten times, and there were some on-theme cards that weren't here either when they would have made the deck a lot stronger