A nice Goblin lord, I also wonder if there is some very fun or silly combos to be done with Changelings or other creature type shenanigans to then fling something at a person and kill them
Decks that want to play counters are almost always control decks, and control decks would much prefer to gain life rather than cause opponents to lose life, so all things being equal they would have preferred to play with Absorb but there were other considerations that forced most of them down the black road instead
(I'd encourage you to check out the sheet, if you haven't already, if you want to see all of the individual card prices that make up the expected value.) Secondly, Double Masters is a massive set with 40 mythics and 121 rares, and especially considering the spreadsheet already lists everything out, it's just not worth putting every individual price into this article
The value of X is calculated only once, as Sanar's ability resolves
Reds allied colors are black and green, and it shares an affinity for menace with the former and trample with the latter, while it shares access to first and double strike with white