Creatures dying will generate energy, but even a few cheap lands like Evolving Wilds and Terramorphic Expanse pull their weight when you sacrifice them.
For this reason, alongside the card's roots as a part of Magic's first graveyard strategies, Animate Dead deserves to be on this list
If Synthesizer Labship's second ability causes a Vehicle to become an artifact creature, its base power and toughness will be set to 2/2
Basically, it is just better in every way
Just like Jhoira earlier, I like him casting fat stuff for five mana, like Insurrection, Eldrazi Titans like Ulamog, Archangel's Light, Plague Wind, Searing Wind, the Ultimatum Cycle like Genesis Ultimatum, Conflux, Apex Devastator, Progenitus, Avacyn, Angel of Hope, the Ancient Dragon cycle, and loads more