You really want to see this card over the course of a game
Cards that have Hand Destruction effects have been around since some of the earliest Sets of the game
Easy enough to say a videogame was definitely the preferred method to play the game as collecting the actual cards was expensive and never provided us with proper cards we could use to play with
This thing can really be a card advantage engine if built correctly
Its card advantage, lifegain, and potentially mana ramp depending on your hand
Option A: Play it in Affinity Imagine the following turn sequence: T1: Ornithopter, Memnite, Mox Opal, Darksteel Citadel, Signal Pest T2: Glimmervoid, Hardened Scales, Steel Overseer T3: Land, Arcbound Ravager (as a 2/2 out the gate), activate Overseer: 2/4 Ornithopter, 2/3 Signal Pest, 4/4 Ravager (with the potential to go to 14/14) Being able to ramp Ravager this hard really stretches the value of burn spells and leaves him exposed mostly to Path to Exile and counters pre-board