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But the MTG designers thought it was too strong, so they nerfed it to +1/-1, and sent the card to the press

Yes, that is right

Four power in the air is fine, fragile as the tail may be

A lot of these cards are kind of underwhelming but almost all of the curses are great

I don't know if you're desperate to use this as a really bad rummage Artifact in a deck where you have no intention of ever attacking, but if you've got creatures and like to hit with them and also you want to discard cards, for basically any reason, there is no excuse for not running this

The latter effect is a nice sweetener but it is not the primary reason you play such cards