No one is playing this just for the treasure-making
I also think you could do something cool with the flavor of something regurgitated or some sort of life cycle
First of all, there is a lack of effective card advantage engines available to Dimir-colored control decks, which makes it hard to play control decks in the first place, but also makes it much more costly to be stuck with the Excruciator in hand, Secondly, it is not leveraging one of the best strengths of the Excruciator, which is that it presents multiple angles of attack
The play boosters you open in a draft on Arena are like the tabletop experience with 14 cards
This color intensive rare only sees play in Commander, and the reason to consider grabbing one is that the price can only really go up until it gets reprinted which considering we got it on the Enchanting Tales bonus sheet, might not be for a minute
But even still, I cannot be the only one who thinks this card has what it takes to make the cut at your next kitchen table night, right