Now that we get to play with this card in Timeless, we can see how it works in high-powered formats, where making a Food and then turning that into an elk is a shockingly common pattern
We can double legends, as the original artifact and the copy have different names, abilities that have as their cost sacrificing the permanent one can be repeated turn after turn, avoiding limitations and creating loops that wouldn't be possible in other settings
Cards like Fauna Shaman and Survival of the Fittest offer ways to get the exact creature you want into your graveyard, while cards like Stinkweed Imp, Underrealm Lich, Golgari Grave-Troll, and Hermit Druid can help with the graveyard filling
This is a one-two punch, especially in Commander where there are plenty of ways to gain a ton of life in a single turn
Lastly, as with many Pokmon with suffixes, ex and EX Pokmon tend to come in high rarities , but lets save arguments such as holo vs
Any supplementary decks a player has (for example, an Attraction deck) also get shuffled and brought into the subgame