Combined with its easy splashability, it was an attractive and popular card to include in decks that were played in environments that couldnt handle it
Since it has first strike, it'll always deal damage before those without, letting your other creatures grow in stats before they get their damage in
Dockside Extortionist The best red card ever printed for Commander just so happens to be a goblin
When you lose or gain life, it gives one of your opponents the Torment of Venom choice, and its fairly trivial to trigger it often with cards like Soul's Attendant and Wall of Blood
That way, youll still have a chance of drawing better cards on your following turns
[60] Dungeons & Dragons 's open-endedness inspired him, like many others, to develop their own game ideas from it