While everything within the card is in color (black creates zombie tokens, green is primary in must be blocked if able, both colors can grant indestructible, and every color can care about equipment), powering up while equipped is almost exclusively seen in red/white
Using their sacrifice ability can scale them rather quickly and then you can kill them off too for widespread damage
Roles are colorless enchantment tokens with various attached abilities
With the advent of Spider-Man, however, this is no longer the case
It also happens to play really well with Jace, letting you flip on turn 4 no matter what else has happened and finding spells to flash back
Ascended Lawmage: Ive beaten control decks that are looking to removal as their answer to fliers with this, and Ive drafted a lot of decks like that that would basically concede to this guy