Gaining Life Points, inflicting damage to your opponent, summoning monsters, drawing cards, destroying cards, all kinds of different effects
This allows you to play lots of cheap infect creatures and give them a significant buff
It's not a good deck to play regularly, but if your playgroup is up for a meme game it's a fun one to bust out every once in a while
Later that night I was watching Jon Finkel playing Storm against an 8-Rack player and was commenting in chat about the matchup, like, Choose to draw first! My lurker shroud was broken with that statement and I soon got a message from a gentleman wanting me to look over his 8-Rack list
Blues hosers for green and red always seem to be relevant (Aether Gust nearly made my Top 20 Counterspells list back in the day), perhaps because their increased efficiency is so sorely needed by blue decks to avoid being immediately overrun by those aggressive colors