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First of all, discarding cards is not always necessarily bad, depending on what you discard, of course

Whenever another creature you control dies, each opponent loses 1 life.

The limited number of ways to interact with opponents is concerning, even if you're flooding the board with a crowd of humans

Similar to cards like Platinum Angel, you need to make sure you can protect it once its in play, but this gives control decks a way to close out games without relying on Omniscience, which everyone is prepared for these days

This Master is a great addition to any ninja deck, though it's a little awkward that this Splinter reference now co-exists with actual Splinter in MTG

You could say it's actively bad