They can impact everything from death triggers to token creation to dealing damage, and they can quietly override triggers or change activated abilities
This creates an incredible value engine that can keep you in the game on multiple axes at once
Two other notables are Magus of the Library and Codie, Vociferous Codex, both of which are getting their first-ever reprints here
Cards like this are fine enough filler when you do have tutors and things but they are pretty essential, and in good number, when you don't
Even if no, especially if youre playing Voltron, the ability to produce a hasty swing of, on average, 20 or so damage, with eggs spread around multiple baskets, is clutch
Considering how bad the Izzet matchup is for Simic, players might keep running the card anyway, hoping to cheese some games with it