Not really even that good, though being a cheap red creature makes it easy to recur and reuse
They stopped crashing and became pretty accessible at or near their lows about a month after being reprinted, though, so really you had about a five-month buying window
K'rrik is really, really, K'rrik is an archenemy commander
In fact, we have so much good reanimation options, I decided to explore this theme further and realized we also have some great ways to get our creatures into the graveyard: theres Buried Alive to tutor them directly into the yard, huge draw options like Necrologia to discard them down to hand size, sacrifice outlets like Greater Good that can also draw oodles of cards, and even Red is contributing here with Sneak Attack to cheat out big creatures from our hand
(9/24/2021) If the top card of your library changes during the process of casting a spell or activating an ability, you can't look at the new top card until the process of casting the spell or activating the ability ends (all targets are chosen, all costs are paid, and so on)