This ability doubles your army with each activation, allowing you to go from a handful of Goblins to hundreds in a single turn
Some players dont like to play against mono-blue and pressure you extra hard because they think youll ruin their fun with a slew of countermagic (which you might be planning to do)
That means you ended up with a gigantic creature on the field that was often the result of some abhorrent eldritch interaction
in fact the second can utterly crush the current battlefield
Streets of New Capenna s male angel is only a token, and Rodolf is from a supplementary set, where more unusual decisions are made and more risks are taken in card design
I am going for a heavily thematic basis for this deck so I do want to have Akroma, Angel of Fury in there, even if she isn't super useful (EDH decks feel a bit like a place where all cool cards go for fun) but you have a point about the Fists of the Demigod and Riot Spikes