It worked moderately well, especially since we were toying with the emerge mechanic in tandem
The second line is the Stoutland BCR line, which is our main attacker. With Stoutland Active and our opponent Paralyzed, this deck capitalizes on a weakness of many decks in the Expanded formatthat they rely on Guzma as their sole way of getting out of the Active
Pushing the impactful cards to higher rarities helps make the games more even-keeled in Limited because of card as-fans (the rate at which a certain card or subset of cards show up within an average booster pack) and in casual Constructed because of card availability
This also includes other kinds of activated abilities
Generally, Ill recommend Cadaverous Knight, Diregraf Colossus, Nantuko Husk, Phyrexian Ghoul, and Rotlung Reanimator as my five favorites from that list
Since many rats are also black, you can use black-specific anthem effects to pump up your creatures, too