When you have to play (4) for every attack, then it really makes you think about it
The card ended up in the set because Ethan Fleischer led the second half of design, and on every set, he always goes through the futureshifted cards
The other day, as I was working on an Ashnod, Flesh Mechanist deck for EDH, I wanted a Culling the Weak, but my three copies already had homes in other decks
The deck deals giant outbursts of damage, and if your opponent doesn't have removal or a blocker, they won't be in the game for long.
A card like Yeva, Nature's Herald or Vedalken Orrery can let you dump your hand out across your opponents turns and play entirely at instant speed
These are available as a bonus sheet, coming in rare and mythic rare only (35 rares and 10 mythics are getting this treatment)