Beyond card advantage and mana advantage, I think most of the other staples are concentrated most in Black with stuff like Demonic Tutor and Reanimate, and Blue has countermagic like Mana Drain and also a bunch of great theft cards like Bribery
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While most decks would much rather tutor a card to their hand, there are plenty of decks that thrive off of getting a powerful card into the graveyard and then using something to let them get that card on the battlefield or stack way ahead of schedule
The excitement largely comes from the flexibility and timing decisions built into its design
I dont want to speculate, but it seems Magics designers might be more Cat people than Dog people, though I could be barking up the wrong tree