War Room allows to draw some cards by losing life, and its something that you can be interested in
For example, Dark Magician Girl gains an additional 300 ATK for every Dark Magician and Magician of Black Chaos in either players graveyard
It never featured in any starter decks for Rise of the Floodborn or later sets, however, so acquiring copies of the card was still a luck of the draw situation
3 mana and 3 life for 3 cards is just a great rate, and the caveat of requiring 3 colors of mana was easy to fulfill between Battle lands and fetchlands
Im not a fan of mulliganing to a Convoker your average hand (by this I mean a chance to cast a Convoker on turn three if you have it or happen to topdeck it) should be competitive against most of the decks in the format
[72] While the Mythic Championships and Magic Pro League catered to the highest level of competitive play, the Player's Tour system was meant to give a path for average players to go from their local game store to the World Championship