You can rely on the effects on some of your fatties to cover you but sometimes you are just hoping to outright win with your combo and really you just want some removal to buy a little bit of time
I love most of those properties - yellow sponges aside - a lot, but I've never really understood why I'd want a deck of cards based on them
And it leaves your blue creatures alone
Its a wrath and universal mass reanimation all at once, and it does this in a way that even gets around indestructible creatures and reanimation hosers like Grafdigger's Cage and Kunoros, Hound of Athreos
BPhillipYork: The ability to sacrifice from your yard to bring to hand is weird and potentially abusable, in combination with Skirge Familiar and some other things fairly abusable
Along with Shift, Diablo has the Evasive keyword, which means that he can be challenged only if the opposing character has the same keyword