This card is a must-have for hobby historians, and its unique Dimensional Hand attack, which allowed it to strike from the bench, made it a meta-defining piece before rotation
Paying three is a lot more difficult than paying two in tempo situations, allowing No More Lies to reliably shut down spells in the opening turns
Szarel is in the three colors that reward sacrificing permanents for value, exploiting +1/+1 counters, and recurring cards from the graveyard
However, if youre going to pay more or less full price to bring back your Balrog or Monstrosity, you can make sure you also get to delete everything else on the board at the same time
Assumably, cards with the Vanish ability will synergize with those cards, making it easier for those effects to go off
I could make a very easy and terrible pun here, but Im not going to