I also play very, very good cards, and I sometimes feel bad for playing them because I don't think it's that interesting to just grab the best new cardboard with the goal of maximizing my win percentage
While it may be a 2/5 creature, its abilities are what makes it powerful
Swarms of the unhallowed claw at Thrabens gates
Compare that to something like [card]Serra Ascendant[/card], which enters the battlefield as a 6/6 creature with lifelink for just one white mana, and its easy to see why that card is a format staple
With more card draw, you can control games with cards like Organic Extinction, play huge spells like Wake the Past, and get your big creatures and planeswalkers like Brudiclad, Telchor Engineer and Ugin, Eye of the Storms more reliably