Its a versatile piece of interaction for fighting control of planeswalker-centric decks
While there's no certainty where these alt-arts may settle in the long term, it's clear that even with a big pullback from their heights, the alt-arts are here to stay as some of the most expensive cards in the SwSh era and beyond
This turns every Reflection played after you have the Hat into a delayed Draw Two cards
Getting this creature on the battlefield can swing games almost immediately, especially if you have a good creature base built up and some open targets to aim at
Its dangerous to build an entire deck around the minor power boost of this and Sky Theater Strix, but its a fine blocker than can help smooth your draws in the midgame
Card choices prioritize how pieces interact with your commander and with each other (e.g., self-mill as draw, modal spells for double Kess value) instead of blindly jamming the usual staples