sheoldred mtg card Arcane Alterations Sheoldred, The Apocalypse Activate only as a sorcery and only if an opponent has eight or more cards in their graveyard Sheoldred, the Apocalypse - Full

These high values only really apply if you use one of the Hell Queue members as your Commander

Velomachus Lorehold Velomachus Lorehold flies in with vigilance and haste, so you can attack right away and still keep it back to block

The right kind of deck here is one which both generates small creatures and plays a slower game something like the Caretakers Talent control archetype from current Standard, or just any control deck with token-producing planeswalkers

Madness makes it so that any card that has the ability can be cast anytime its discarded

In addition to Modern play, the card is decent in White-focused Commander builds as its another copy of the popular removal spell in the singleton format

Not every Blue deck is going to be about casting Instants and Sorceries, but the ones that are will want this to hand