Elesh Norns cards seem to consistently outprice her fellow Praetors, and Id assume this stays the most expensive of the Multiverse Legends reprintings for a bit
Glacian's inventions were the basis for Urza's and Mishra's artifacts used to fight the Brothers' War, and all Phyrexian artifice is also derived from Glacian's experiments
Throwing the Fight: In several of the battles, you have to lose on purpose to get the Good ending (and occasionally, the Strange ending), and in these cases, losing on purpose is often harder than winning if you're using the rental
The fact that it deals 7 damage to you at the start of your turn is possibly also a reference to a fruitcake being dry and hard to bite into, or it could be an exaggerated way of communicating that it simply doesn't taste very good
Copying that creature so you attack all your opponents at once
With a 0|1 stat line, the opposing player isnt risking losing their Character when they challenge Cursed Merfolk Ursulas Handiwork , but they will have to choose a card from their hand and discard it