Magmortar also dishes out the Burn Status Condition, giving you a chance to deal an additional 20 damage between turns
That being said any deck entirely relying on black for it's removal will struggle more than usual to deal with Sculler what with it being black, gold and an artifact leaving only Edict effects, mass removal and -X/-X effects
The starting player gets a draw phase, so it is very much upside to win the coin flip
Two mana
Plus, your creatures have the wither ability, so theyre extra hard to block profitably, and you can build your own -1/-1 counters engine with cards like Archfiend of Ifnir
There was an important story point that didn't show up in the written story, but had huge implications for the plane, so we wanted to make sure players saw it