Sure, you need to pump three mana into it to get started, and you're only gaining one power for each mana you pump into it, but that one little word convoke fixes all of those issues
Love it in any deck that can use indestructible or self-targeting like Heroic or Boros's Aurelia, or Voltron/Equipment/Auras as a backup win con or artifact or more
Since the way Sagas work, you could theoretically, keep triggering any chapter of a Saga over and over again, except the final one, since you have to sacrifice it once the third chapter triggers
Tapped Basic Fetches For the next couple entries well work our way up a sort of hierarchy of lands that sacrifice themselves to search for other lands, usually basics
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Well be talking in the general context of Historics Meta, and the projected Alchemy Metagame