This is because just like with rituals effects in turbo lists there is a real power to be had in effect density, so much so that deploying an umpteenth restriction on your opponents gameplans can sufficiently allow you to move on with your secondary goal of actually winning the game
It's the master spy of the Agents of S.N.E.A.K., whose codename is just X
The flavor text is If I must die, I will encounter darkness as a bride,/ And hug it in my arms
It also comes with the Bodyguard keyword to keep all your other characters from being challenged
Perhaps this accounts for its current price tag of around $5
Among these modes includes making your opponent discard two cards, dealing three damage to anything, destroying either an artifact or a planeswalker (goodbye Urza!), giving you creatures menace and trample for the turn, giving creatures you dont control -1/-1, or creating two tapped Powerstone tokens