Life gain should come attached to another effect, like draining opponents, drawing cards, making tokens, or keeping you alive while you set up a win
The artwork sells the moment, and the gameplay effect has anchored many Ruby-based control lists
Eventually, you'll be ready to aim it at your opponents
And yet, here we are a month after a BGS 9.5 copy went for over $87,000 and weve got what appears to be another massive sale
Its a great choice when you care more about cards in hand quickly than absolute best per-card economics at 600+ cards. If youre building a cube / many decks / going full goblin-mode on volume MPC + mpcfill is still the bulk championprovided youre okay doing the work and waiting a bit longer
(2) this is a very weak argument even if you know that the opponent will try to mill you: using anti-mill cards is much better instead