It has abilities that are never dead
That oozes value and pressure, which sounds like a winning combination
I'm a big fan of the Secret Rendezvous card, which has four different versions of the Golden Saucer date scene from Final Fantasy 7 with each potential date: Aerith, Tifa, Yuffie, and Barret
The uncommon Orcish Artillery is about 5 times more expensive in alpha than in beta due to the misprinted mana cost (1R rather than 1RR), and the same huge relative prize difference can be seen in Elvish Archers (which is an 1/2 in alpha, and a 2/1 in beta)
Youre rolling the dice a bit as you would with any other random theft effect, but sneaking the first hit in is usually easy thanks to ninjutsu
But with Gwenom out, the plan shifts: you pay a single life to exile the top card and immediately unlock a new top card to cast