They don't "steal." They just take back what's rightfully theirs.
This card is so ridiculously good, it dominated the game for years and actually changed the entire design philosophy the game is built around
Wizards of the Coast has officially confirmed a Monster Hunter-themed Secret Lair, ending roughly a week of rampant speculation sparked by a teaser on the Secret Lair website (and some subsequent data-mining that essentially confirmed it)
My personal pick as to why Heartfire Hero had to go in the first place, and why Screaming Nemesis is going to become even more of a menace moving forward
These are still played in the formats where theyre not banned
The deck starts by casting a number of efficiently-costed faerie creatures with strong secondary abilities including Sleep-Cursed Faerie (flying, ward 2), Obyra (flying, drain), Likeness Looter (loot, clone), Talion's Messenger (loot, +1/+1 counters), Talion (drain/card draw), and more