Bontu's Monument is another decent payoff, since most bats have black in their color identity, and the fiddling with life totals is right up bats alley
Since then the idea of transform has been iterated upon in a handful of sets
Two Jurassic World Secret Lairs were also printed, featuring Jurassic World art variants of classic Magic cards
You play a certain number of counterspells in decks that want them as they are decent coverall security and disruption however Spell Snare is too limited in its targets to be a good coverall or security card
Toss in a few token duplication effects and you'll have an army of tokens in no time.
I set a monster, passed the turn to my opponent, and they then spent a ridiculous amount of time summoning monsters, sacrificing those monsters to play even more powerful monsters, and continuing that pattern until my side of the board was empty and their side had upward of 10,000 points of damage ready to be freely applied to my piddling 8,000-point life pool