You can also pay a blue and three colorless to bounce it back to your hand, dodging removal spells, or to be used as a repeatable blocker
So EDH, I suppose, where this Rakdos demon is cracked
As it turns out, that three price point system originates from back when Scrye and Inquest were the premier methods for determining the values of your cards
Emry, Lurker of the Loch gives you near-permanent artifact recursion by casting them out of your graveyard, and anybody who has been in a pod with Urza, Lord High Artificer knows how out of hand that deck can get
I think at first glance, folks might discount just how quickly counters will pile up
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