This gives you ways to get your buffed creatures past opponents blockers
Cards like Agent of Masks, Blind Hunter, Ghost Council of Orzhova, Mourning Thrull, Orzhov Guildmage, and Pillory of the Sleepless all bled your opponent to death, draining one life point at a time (well, two in the case of Blind Hunter)
Make that potentially repeatable via Commanders like Abaddon the Despoiler, Yidris, Maelstrom Wielder, Maelstrom Wanderer, Averna, the Chaos Bloom, or even The First Sliver, and fireworks are sure to ensue
Imodane, the Pyrohammer turns burn-as-removal into more noncombat damage pointed at each opponent
It grows your dork and then has hexproof to shut down targeted removal too
It also won't copy any counters on the creature, but it will retain any counters it already had on it