It is an artifact creature (maintaining Dooms indestructibility condition), draws a card (fueling the connive engine), blocks anything flying (defensive utility), and costs two mana
Its a deterrent for your opponents to chump-block and it gives you an additional benefit even if your creature dies in combat
With many formats revolving around 20 life, dealing 10,000 damage is way overkill, and it's most likely there for flavor since Final Fantasy 's Jumbo Cactuar also has an attack called 10,000 Needles that deals that much damage to one party member
When it attacks, you can give something a cell counterand suddenly, all your modified creatures turn into 7/5 beaters for the turn, making it a great finisher that ends games when unchecked
Then when this lad attacks you deal damage equal to his time counters to any target
#6 Grim Monolith - Silver Age The last puzzle piece at exactly the wrong time