The incidental grave hate from his recipe-focused ability shouldn't be the reason you play the card though
Thats why Curse of the Swine remains the most played blue wrath. You can get rid of as many problems as you have mana, and 2/2 tokens are much easier to deal with after
Energy Counters Plasma weapons, power armor, and Vault-Tec security systems don't run on hope and charming smiles
A mono-black deck won't have access to something like Golgari Grave-Troll, but it can still use Stinkweed Imp and Golgari Thug to give some punch to Songs of the Damned
Hobgoblin Bandit Lord is hovering around $4 a card now, but the more people get to play with it (and the more they realize it can help set up an alternate win condition in goblin commander decks), the more they should be able to charge for it
Why don't I try that in a deck?" Case in point here is Obzedat's Aid