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Even though it only works on one guy, it changes the whole tenor of the game because if you do your activations in the right order, it forces them to blow Immediates early if they want to prevent their guy from falling into death range.  Not to mention the benefit of knowing you can get a problem guy off the board.  Sure they get to respawn, but unless they're running Snigg or Call to Battle you cost them an activation, and even if they are it's pretty likely the respawn hurts their positioning.  Again, I've played with it in a couple of decks and it's been extremely strong.  Ditto Piercing Strike.  Killing dudes is the name of the game, after all, and being able to do it around tricks is huge for positioning and activation advantages.  (You mentioned cowering in the other thread and I guess I agree that if your opponent wants to cower all the time cards that stop that are in some sense bad because they're prevening bad play, but I sorta feel like you can't ever lose those games so you should probably play cards that are good when people play well.)

It also works fine with Tough as Nails/+10 damage.  It's a bit awkward since you have to play it after those cards, but especially getting a guy with permanent Piercing Strike is amazing and worth a bit of awkward sandbagging.  It just sounds like you're talking about a very different deck; I'm not going to play it in the kind of deck where Goblin War Cry is good.  It's amazing on Dragon Knight, Bugbear Berserker, and Vampire Stalker.  Like, utterly unreal good.  It probably isn't great on other dudes, sure, but I can't really think of many cards I'm going to play in every single deck; the measure of a card that's good in DC is IMO how good it is in decks where it's good.  Goblin War Cry is another great example, if it's in a deck that can maximize it it's solid, but there are a lot of cases where it's not as good as Heroic Surge/Quick Jab or the other free minor attacks.  Maximized Short Sword is crazy good because it cuts off the counters for big hits.  (Other than not having anything worth killing, I suppose, but the Bugbear is kind of bad news there and is likely to end up in decks that want the Sword.)