However, it's still not particularly bad either, and the fact that it gains menace is a notable added bonus
Rakdos is a bit different in that he can be a one-sided board wipe, but there arent that many other Devils, Demons, or Imps worth playing, and hes risky to play anyway since you could end up wiping your board and not affecting your opponent at all, so he never really took off
This three-mana black and green sorcery allows you to return a nonland permanent to the battlefield from your graveyard with a mana value equal to up to the number of permanent cards you have in your graveyard
Back way when, Wizards didn't really make sure that there were ENOUGH playable limited cards in the common slots for sets (no one was playing much limited before the inception of the Pro Tour, around the release of Ice Age ), so horribly unplayable cards like Snowfall and Balduvian Shaman glutted the common slots of packs - and commons are where most of the meat of your limited cardpool comes from
The only real downside here is that you can only get each effect once per turn, but thats not much of a downside when you can do this every single turn.
This Golgari cards a mana generator, graveyard hate, direct damage and lifegain all on a body that can hit the field turn one