Black mainly focuses on creature recursion with the likes of Graveshifter and Palace Siege, and blue generally can only return instants or sorceries
Secondly, it makes your opponent lose three life
This has the bonus effect of reducing the risk of never drawing threats
The cards in the center of the picture were the ones that were dehydrated and arched initiallythey had not yet rehydrated to flat but were quite close Cards at 72% were all some degree of cupped (almost the same, in fact), with the exception of the two cards I was rehydrating from the double-sleeved experiment
The Elemental Incarnations are way better and Counterspell puts it in the dust in terms of power level, but that isnt the only cause of card removal from a format
Committing a crime lets you cast a black spell from your graveyard, whether that be another removal spell or just a creature