Its effect is much more important than getting a few extra mills out of someone, and there are so many other ways to gain life, you won't ever need to bother
Stay safe, and follow the Clues
An Unbalanced Affair Omega, the Heartless is a great MTG card, and a solid representation of a Final Fantasy icon
The first will force the targeted foe to draw three and discard three at random (good for discard punishing decks like Megrim), sacrifices a non-token artifact (not a Treasure, Clue, Blood, or Food), and the Balor shoots them for the damage to the cards in their hand (nice)
Have your weaker creature ETB as that thing, or even manifest a land from your hand with Scroll of Fate as a Restoration Angel reanimating your Agent of Treachery to steal your opponents highest value creature (happened in the first Mystic Reflection playtest game)
This time the planeswalkers weren't a cycle (although, between Shards of Alara and Conflux , we did have one planeswalker per shard)