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Mark Rosewater seems to think along those lines

This is a creature-only Shock as a baseline, and it remains a relevant removal spell all game long because it's tiered

Obviously, by the time U rzas Saga came out, things had gone way off the rails

You also gain 2 life by the by as if that were needed, and that's a very powerful free adjunct

Adding a counter to this, making it an isntant, and giving it the ability to grab Towns makes this one of the better lower rarity ramp effects we've seen in Limited for a long time

Its ability to slip past defenses makes it especially effective in Merfolk and tempo-based strategies , where incremental damage adds up quickly