For the cost of one mana of each color save for black, when this 4/4 elemental enters the battlefield, its controller draws a card
A wide variety of action cards to adapt to different situations
Being able to reduce the damage dealt by a Blasphemous Act or Storm's Wrath can prevent a big swing in favor of your opponent
1 Nexus of Fate, Isochron Scepter, and Mystical Tutor Though this combo also uses Isochron Scepter, it works very differently from the mono-red one
You might accidentally put a powerful non-Ally card to the bottom of your library
Oh sure, theres the occasional Jaces Sanctum plus Days Undoing deck, but the archetype as a whole never puts up results in Standard or Modern (or gods forfend, Legacy)