It cares about card types in a neat way, and secretly gets better and better as Wizards prints more black cards that allow you to sacrifice a creature or artifact
As far as price goes, trying out Flesh and Blood if fairly reasonable
Full art Supporters with popular characters like Carmine almost always end up as goldmines, and the hype surrounding this card points to it being one of the biggest chase cards in the expansion set
Seems they only got that half-right though, because in the game of Magic: The Gathering you can most certainly create energy
At the beginning of the next end step, return that card to the battlefield under its owners control with a +1/+1 counter on it." A player casts Otherworldly Journey targeting Chittering Host, a melded permanent
I remember with the Baldur's Gate set, many of the important characters in the lore got shafted and were placed at uncommon to make way to promote Baldur's Gate 3