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Many black decks in EDH revolve around treasure synergies or typal synergies, and having this black enchantment around improves both

Darkness hits especially hard against Psychic types

Exile your hand to draw a fresh one, but you can still play what you remove until your next turn

How cards get damaged

Cryptic Command would still be a versatile and powerful card even if you always had to chose counterspell as one of the options but if that were the case you go from a card with 6 options to one with 3

For example, you can't sacrifice a Food token to activate its own ability and also to activate the ability of Tempting Witch