Whether were talking about delving, reanimating, or myriad other graveyard synergies, there are lots of reasons to dislike that Jacob exiles the cards that you loot
That's pretty great already, but what if you also throw a counter strategy on top of that
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Trample, haste At the beginning of your end step, if this creature attacked this turn, return it to its owner's hand
Part of the value of Toxic Deluge is that life is less risky to pay in powered formats, an extra turn of speed is more valuable, and the tactical applications of Toxic Deluge are quite important
In theory, if you play Thran Temporal Gateway with eight mana (four to cast and four to activate), you can spin right away, but considering that most of the things you'd want to cheat into play cost eight or less mana anyway, this isn't really gaining much compared to simply casting your threat