In this aspect, they can be synergistic: Gaining life can be one way to buy yourself time to put the drawn cards to good use
Rather than see it as simply a rider, the designers tried to find effects that worked with scry
Copies of Mulcharmy Purulia dropped significantly in price during the lead-up to Purulias reprints in Maze of the Master, but Purulia appears to have been harder to pull from MoM than sellers anticipated, because it rebounded just a month after the set dropped
Mono black decks dont really get to ramp very often, and one of their primary ways is sacrificing creatures but they need mana producing Altars, or a creature like Pitiless Plunderer in play to really pull it off
But a full release every three months lines up with the proper Pokmon TCG schedule and standard card game practice in general
It requires three energy to use its move Magnum Punch