At the beginning of your upkeep, if this card is exiled with a scream counter on it, remove a scream counter from it
Necropotence was an original sleeper hit
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She's very strong at the fun times, with the card flow like Merfolk Looter as well as gaining a metric ton of life incidentally, so lean into life loss effects since you'll have tons
Now you can attack because retreating clears all card effects (see rule 6)
One more note on playing against sweepersand this is a subtle thingis how being able to play something like Hammer lets you use your mana without either overextending another creature into a mass removal spell or burning a burn spell (ahem) for mana-efficiency purposes, both limiting your own options and giving your opponent more information going forward from that point