Just a quick glance at the card should be enough to reveal why hes perfectly suited for the Rakdos Cauldron deck
Includes Sinner's Judgment, a white enchantment aura curse that, with accumulation of judgment counters, causes the enchanted player to lose the game
If you do, choose a land you control
You can still perform this combo in Legacy and Commander, and its doing more work as an answer to planeswalkers these days, too
So while at first it might not look that this guys really all that special, you can actually find a lot of use for him
The fictional birds have appeared in just about every mainline entry in the series, though (fun fact!) they didnt make their debut until 1988s Final Fantasy II