Ragost costs 1 Red and 1 White for a 2/2 creature, and it makes all artifacts under the user's control Foods in addition to their other types and effects, meaning that players can pay two generic mana, tap them, and sacrifice them in order to gain three life
Not only does it mean your turn two is always a high impact play, but also that on turn four, you have powerful, double spell turns like Thalia into Luminarch Aspirant
The mode you play it as is permanent, which is different from the transform double-faced cards that appear in sets like Innistrad
While this may not seem all that amazing, it opens up the Hieratic deck to actually using their themed Level 6 Normal monster: Hieratic Seal of the Dragon King
Tools aplenty
Lastly the Infernoid duel was more or less me hoping I had a way to duel without relying on my GY