You're able to save valuable merchandising space in your store, and it reduces the amount of information you're communicating to your players regarding what's in each booster, and how each booster is put together
If youre not already familiar with the source, most of the references are totally lost, and the characters end up boiling down to dude with weapon making a pose. I felt this way with Fallout especially, since I wasnt very familiar with that franchise
Is Gate to Manorborn legal to play
He does look very distinguished, though
Something about the nature of the magic used to animate them makes them immune to phyresis (the process that turns things into Phyrexians)
From Magic Arcana: Friday, May 31, 2002: Fallen Empires tokens Odyssey may have pushed token creatures to the forefront of tournament Magic, but the biggest set for tokens (and counters) was probably Fallen Empires from 1994