Cycling your hand and getting 3 things for it is amazing though, and there's tons of ways to turn discarding into even more cards, or you may want to fill your yard for reanimation or to win off Underworld Breach
I kind of find that interesting, since life gain has been so pigeon-holed into white and black for so long, but its nice
I have seen a lot of manlands getting animated just to crew this recently which speaks volumes to the power of this bad boy
Notably, this ban window is shortly after the release of Modern Horizons 3, which launches in early June
Vraska, Betrayal's Sting is a flexible proliferate option that also acts as removal or a finisher, but personally I feel she's a bit overcosted at 5 mana minimum
Tavern Scoundrel was designed as a riff on Tavern Swindler, another coin-flip card with a much less impressive reward for winning the flip