You can hit all your opponents at once, and when you do, youll get to draw cards, gain life, or create Treasure
Thats pretty great, especially in a color with Reanimate
It only went on creatures and didn't mean anything on larger creatures, so we ended up with something that was interesting on only a handful of cards
Late-game, it can even be used to create a 10/10 token if drawing cards is an effect you don't need anymore
Named after cards like Ghostly Flicker and Momentary Blink (or Flicker and Blinking Spirit for veteran Magic players), a flicker deck focused on the actual aspect of flickering permanents in and out of play is generally focused on extracting a lot of value a little bit at a time from their cards
Development, on the other hand, needs to care about how people play based on all the tiny measurements