Regardless, the ability to put anything into play from your hand for free, provided you have more lands than its mana value, is a terrifying thing to play against
It can't really do much of anything without a graveyard
Red offers Galvanic Blast, which deals double damage if Metalcraft is online, as well as Orcish Vandal, which can sacrifice artifacts to deal 2 damage to its targets
The latter option is, of course, much more attractive, but the fact that the former option exists gives the card more use in more situations
The juxtaposition of Heaven and Hell, holy and fallen, are presented in that style of oversaturated religious fantasy you see in old paintings as well as that church you went to one time with the deeply traumatizing sculpture of Christ covered in way too much blood