In the late game, we also have ways to generate some tokens to pick up Equipment if Tetsuo has been cleared out too often
Using Gravecrawler as a "fair" value piece to generate extra resources is fine, but where its strength truly lies is in totally unfair combo pieces
Also, the best burn spell in Stoke the Flames likes to have a healthy number of small creatures to help cast it, and traditionally Burn decks can only afford twelve or so slots to creatures
The reason for this is mainly that since the printing of Ragavan, Nimble Pilferer, Dragons Rage Channeler and Murktide Regent the tempo archetype reinvented itself in being primarily blue-red and making Deaths Shadow not a necessary creature for tempo shells anymore
Its controller may search their library for a basic land card, put it onto the battlefield tapped, then shuffle