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Since it's a mana cheap instant, you can do this in response to targeted or sweeping removal to get cards, as a sacrifice or it can send something to your graveyard about to get exiled by Swords to Plowshares, or to get value out of a chump blocker about to die anyway
When you sacrifice the two Blood tokens when Strefan attacks, thats 2 life points lost for each opponent because sacrificing those tokens also causes life loss
Plus, all of these are nonfoil
If you are simply looking to beat down against a control deck, you can do that
9 Sawblade Scamp Going back to red's aggressive roots, Sawblade Scamp is a cheaper Thermo-Alchemist that can attack in the early game