Gerrard eventually killed him, and in an alternate reality, Mirri became cursed, not Crovax, and he became a champion of good
Very few rares stay over $10 unless they are cross-format stars or staples, so whatever this hype is, you want to be feeding it, not holding and hoping
Lets make a couple observations before we get into individual decks
To combat this, many of them have some sort of downside Animate Dead gave the monster -1/0, Exhume allowed both players to reanimate a target in their graveyards, Stitch Together required payment of life but the downside was never really enough to deal with pulling things like Griselbrand, Elesh Norn, Grand Cenobite, Sun Titan, and the like out of a graveyard for free
Articles like these are deceptively difficult to write well but Ted made it look easy