If you pay this additional cost, you get an effect that has been commonly used on a multitude of cards over the last decade: you get to exile a card from the opponents graveyard, then remove all other copies from their graveyard, hand, or library from the game
Since Dragons are known for their late-game strength, you may be targeted before you ever play a creature, since your opponents will want to take you out of the game before you become a problem
Other mechanics included in the set all lean into the theme
Still not sure if this makes any cuts in a non-tribal deck
they share the "detective noir meets speculative fiction" genre premise, but the Ravnica novel has much more fun and much less Marxist political theory from the author
So what do you think of Ellywick Tumblestrum