Its licensed artwork and premium materials make it suitable for birthdays, holidays, or special occasions
Other than that, Living Death is a welcome reprint for any Graveyard-matters EDH deck, whilst Basalt Monolith is a stellar inclusion price-wise
Typically, it gets played for its cycling + madness cost ala Ichor Slick from TSP Limited and flashes back, but it has surprisingly high flexibility for such a good card (note that you cant buy it back when its being flashed back as it gets auto-exiled, but you can do things like cycling + madness + buyback if the game goes long)
These are meant to be played in multiplayer free-for-all Commander matches
Its a great way to feel out a pod of unknown players if you think youre going to be playing with those people for the rest of the night
Now, red has some permanent access to mana