If you bias towards big creatures worthy of reanimation, Cruelclaw can become a double enabler, casting battlecruisers for free or discarding them to Reanimate later
only when you look away do they show their actual forms, which is delivered with their ability to cease to be a creature
At the time, there was only one format, which was the equivalent to today's Vintage (but at the time was just called "Magic"!)
You could be dumping cards out various ways for mana or other value, and then replaying them
The most common method is to simply run them dry of hit points, followed by milling their entire libraries, but perhaps the most insidious path to victory involves one of the oldest counters in the game's decades-long history: poison
You can grab it with searchers like Into the North