When you bring the Sinful Spoils spell and trap cards into the picture, the potential for the deck becomes apparent
The mana in the new set is not great, so new Standard decks will have to play many basic lands
Floodgates that stop effects / access to GY / Special Summoning / searching, like "Deck Lockdown" and "Macro Cosmos"
Making each opponent sacrifice their largest creature isn't the same as removing their strongest creature, but it often gets prominent threats from each player
In this case, it was primarily used in Food Chain combo decks as a means to generate infinite mana to get in for a kill shot
There are a bunch of legendary creatures of common rarity in this set, which may make Pauper stable Cast Down less relevant, meaning that I'll have to buy a playset of this Terminate too