U1 134.000 U2 269.000 C1 403.000 C3 1.209.000 (Source) What's the Print Run of The Dark
So, it's card advantage early, and a beater later, pretty flexible
This white creature is amazingly annoying (and you know that's enough for some players!), and with any sort of blink this bird rogue becomes a serious control tool: Plotting a card from the stack can deal with uncounterable spells, and any counterspell you plot becomes effectively useless (since they don't work at sorcery speed!)
If another effect modifies how much noncombat damage the source would deal, including preventing some of it, the player being dealt damage chooses an order in which to apply those effects
You could, however, cast it via some alternate means, like with Sunforger or Kaho, Minamo Historian
And here we are: Arabian Nights' enduring crown jewel