The Ascension is pretty easy to make work if you get it out early, and once it's online it's often the best thing you can do with your mana
A 2.5 is a card youre almost always playing, a card with two grades reflects that its great when its in the correct deck, and Sideboard indicates that a card is worthy of consideration in Best-of-Three matches
Any deck that happens to run lore counter removal cards will enjoy this too
Once you've paid most of your life to cast spells, you can hit your opponents with cards like Profane Transfusion and Repay in Kind to drag another player or even the rest of the table down with you
Control is an incredibly varied arch-archetype of deck, enveloping several archetypes itself
Vorinclex, Monstrous Raider is very easy to cast, and six mana for such a powerful effect is more than worth it