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If you dont want your opponents creatures, yours still receive some insurance against effects like Path to Exile and Deadly Rollick, which can be extremely helpful if a creature like Avacyn, Angel of Hope is holding the rest of your board together

Top deck manipulation

The selling point of an effect like this is definitely the ceiling, and here the ceiling is a pre-combat trump card which produces lethal from far beyond the range your opponent expects for 1B

The design space here was tight, and they fit it in extremely well

It's an excellent mana fixer, and provides a curiosity effect (with trample on top) to your big guys, potentially letting you draw a card with each attack