The life loss isnt much of a downside, but it can be painful if you need to remove a Doubling Season or Warstorm Surge
We then gave it the sacrifice ability to allow you to one-time save your creatures but at the cost of the permanent
Stranger things have happened
This is also why three-drops are a bit limiting in blue decks: it is just too hard to slot in a later cantrip and play a three-drop after
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This was hint one that Vehicles are closer to creatures than artifacts, but I missed it as a downside