I went back and read over some set reviews published before the set was officially released, and while many people underrated the power of Become Immense, Treasure Cruise, and even Monastery Swiftspear, everyone knew that the trilands would be heavily played in a three-color format, and LSV picked Murderous Cut as the single best card for constructed from the entire set
Let's say you have a humble three-person free for all, your first attack gets you one additional copy of The Master, a second attack with both of those asks you what 22 is, giving you four more copies, and if your opponents can't handle that, it grows exponentially to be way more 4/3 bodies than you paid for
However, we are permitted to add steps to his instructions or, in one case, use a different attack than what he directs, so long as it does not make it impossible for us to otherwise do exactly what he says
Treacherous Greed Treacherous Greed is only good in token decks, I think, but it turns out that Orzhov is pretty good at that, and those decks also tend to like lifegain and life loss synergies