You could mutate a creature onto that creature if it was a Dinosaur, a Beast, or it had vigilance
This is why I did a double-take when I saw one of my Twitter friends referring to a subset of newer cards as the Modern Reserved List. After all, if there is something out there that can conceivably be called the Modern Reserved List without eliciting gales of laughter, isnt it worth spending a lot of time to see if theres any truth to that claim
Do not fire your hate early unless you are stopping a lethal line or denying a massive swing
Add to that the possibility of destroying some (or all) of the creatures on the board and suddenly Rakdos becomes a lot better
Dryad Arbor: Can be found with Finale when X is 0 for a small ramp or board-development play
Horrifying body gore, impossible-to-detect infiltration schemes, and a (mostly) irreversible transformation into one of the most feared entities in Magic