While this card can be easily removed with an Impale or Murder, it can easily end games early if you don't have a removal spell in hand
The ramp now contributes to our strategy, and we have some better removal, better card draw, and a slightly lower curve of creatures super important for an aggressive deck
In a few corner cases you'll want to send the loss of abilities to an opponent's creature, you'll deal with the counters they get if you avoid one of those game warping abilities running all over the tables these days
Luckily for us, Rakdos supplies more than enough ways to support a discard-themed list that can get Kroxa out on curve with numerous discard outlets and engines
While Thousand-year Elixir and Tyvar can help you get tappin straight away, there are other instances where its actually pretty nice to have Sting, the Glinting Dagger
(Artifacts, legendaries, and Sagas are historic.) , Sacrifice a Treasure: Goad target creature