Judge's Familiar would be better for sure, you could run both but Raptor is certainly wrong if over the Familiar
Another solution is simply to play Destructive Flow in a deck full of cheap cards and kill your opponent with one- and two-drops while no one can cast anything bigger
Or are they a little too un-fun and unnecessarily prolong Commander games
3 from the main set, and Coruscation Mage and Gleeful Arsonist
You may, understandably, have been expecting more from a creature with the God type line, but The Atropal is actually very powerful when you consider the low opportunity cost of summoning him
It just makes a lot more sense to curve out with Blazing Bomb, Sahagin, The Emperor, Ultros and Shantotto, THEN start chaining together copies of Retrieve the Esper, rather than trying to play noncreature spells the whole game