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You need to be able to beat the common archetypes with any deck you are building and in order to beat the fast agro decks you typically need lots of cheap things to be playing so as to not get overrun too fast

If it gains 8 life all by itself with double strike, the reanimator aspect gets really powerful

Here are some incentives for it: Cards like Corrupt, Cabal Coffers, Mutilate, and Defile want you to play as many swamps as possible, so their efficiency is maximized in mono-black decks

Since you dont want to gather more than seven thrulls, you wont care that much about your tokens, so theyre good as attackers and blockers

Its also a 6/6 Flampler that borrows from Hoard-Smelter Dragon in a decidedly less impactful way