With Faithless Looting gone, at the very least, this card is the best in its class in Modern
According to the Duel Commander Committee, Nadu bypasses most traditional hate options, and truly effective disruption options are too rare or too restrictive
Banlists and restriction lists are fairly common in most TCGs and CCGs as a way to balance out the meta by removing problematic cards that make the rest of the competitive scene extremely unfair
Black manifests its theme of forbidden knowledge with a suite of draw spells second only to blues
Next time I play the deck, I plan on replacing it with Decisive Denial as more flexible interaction
You can use it to copy a combo piece in your graveyard, effectively avoiding countermagic, or just copy a creature that gets good value for you when it attacks, like Archon of Cruelty