Exsanguinate was first released in the set Scars of Mirrodin, illustrated by Carl Critchlow
Indeed, it can be highly advantageous for your own purposes to draw off of other players fighting each other though you can get some occasional side eye in the process
There are also scaling threats that get stronger with each discard
Grafdiggers Cage does excellent work against Phoenix, Neoform, and Collected Company decks
The beauty of the card is in its flexibility, though: you can build in packages of artifacts, enchantments, or the like, and power them out with a well-timed Umori play, giving you a lot of options that a companion brew just wouldnt offer.
Then exile it.) "Bolters, flamers, plasmawe hit the xenos with everything, and it just kept coming." Captain Uriel Ventris Illustrated by: L J Koh Not Legal Traditional Standard Not Legal Traditional Alchemy Not Legal Traditional Explorer Not Legal Traditional Historic Not Legal Traditional Timeless Rulings 2021-03-19 Because targets are chosen for spells before costs (such as Sacrifice three creatures) are paid, Dread Return cast with flashback can't target a creature card that will be sacrificed to pay its cost