The life loss is worth running a card that can eke out the last 12 or 16 cards of someone's library
The effect also has unfortunate implications, with Jihad needing to leave the field if the opponent no longer controls a card with a color selected by the caster
That makes this a pretty high quality Common A 5-mana 4/7 with Vigilance is already a card youd play in most formats
This set flips the usual Pokmon script and throws in some serious edge
If they cant, you draw a card instead, which makes it a win either way
Since it can destroy permanents without question, Ashnod's Altar and Phyrexian Altar, which are powerful artifacts Teysa Karlov often uses, are often targeted, but the ability to sacrifice creatures that these two have is a mana ability, so they can be activated without any problems even while the Split Second effect is applied