The cost reduction comes from your other outlaw creatures, and while this has no utility outside of combat, it's an easy way to reinforce the outlaws theme with a cheap creature that triggers payoffs like Vial Smasher, Gleeful Grenadier or Discreet Retreat
Unless you get creative with counter manipulation, of course
Extended-art cards carry their artwork over the sides of the frame, showing you even more of the beautiful artwork on the card
The art, too, doesnt look anything like the Efrit-and-magma plane we know Wildfire to be: its much more Regathan monk
Since we aren't optimizing for draft, we can do new things with the commons and uncommons
With all that Ink, you can easily play Rubys suite of hard removal options including the infamous Be Prepared or Sisu Empowered Sibling to annihilate your opponents board