The sacrifice ability occasionally came in handy, guarding against mass removal even though it was never the primary motivating factor, and it was hard for decks running him to justify keeping the necessary mana untapped until very late in the game
However, if you were playing Niv-Mizzet Parun as your Commander it is a different story

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Sometimes Hymn to Tourach outright wins the game because you force them to discard all their lands
When two cards (for example, Fang, Fearless l'Cie and Vanille, Cheerful l'Cie) are melded, the result is a single permanent (in this case, Ragnarok, Divine Deliverance) that's represented by two cards
Those Auras and Equipment will phase in at the same time that creature does, and they'll phase in still attached to that creature