There arent many decks that will be able to answer such powerful threats that early, and since youre entire deck will be creatures, youll be able to drop threat after threat, beating down the table and winning easily
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This would have provided the new or beginner player with insight into other options and potentially kicked up their creative thinking
You cant respond to that ability by activating the ability of one of the other Shadowborn Apostles you just sacrificed
For example, you usually need to dedicate some amount of deck space to removal, but if many of your creatures destroy permanents on ETB, you can skimp on targeted removal and go higher on your creature count
There are some extreme edge cases where you could hold up Lotus and Twister/Wheel, and then reset the board state entirely with this, but otherwise, its a lot of mana for not a lot of benefit