On the surface, Spiteful Banditry looks awfully similar to another big mythic enchantment, Meathook Massacre
Wrap Up Zenith Festival | Illustration by Ben Wootten Subtly but surely, WotC is fostering the leaves the graveyard archetype, always adding a few payoffs every set
Partly it's the interesting and experimental art styles
Since it's a non-Human, you can mutate Animar, Soul Of Elements, and give the creature protection from white and black, two of the colors with the most removal spells
In some matchps the turn one Aether Vial is the scariest play that is most important to stop, in others the seven mana Karn Liberated, on all the various scary important spells to stop Force of Will offers you the best or near best odds on stopping it
There are a lot of things here to like about our good friend Ulamog