The untap ability also works best alongside tap abilities, opening up the option to reuse them or to use them and still attack afterwards
He serves as a cheap, easy tutor for your best auras and equipment, and then makes the perfect target for equipping them once he comes out as a creature
Hot firebenders aside, Epic Downfall and Heartless Act are efficient black removal spells that return to Standard for the first time since Ikoria
I enjoy that once you have the emblem the game isn't a foregone conclusion
The second is that it exiles, not destroys, which means it deals with pesky recursion, at least if youre not the one doing it
But it's not for the player, it's specifically for a modified hero