Not to mention, Creature-heavy decks arent the most prevalent in Vintage, and you can sometimes use Tinker or Paradoxical Outcome to make sure your opponents dont get to steal it
This wasnt totally foreign to the color thanks to cards like Mana Vortex and Back to Basics, but this colorshifted Magus of the Moon is easier to leverage and has performed well in Modern Merfolk and control decks
In a format where you can play mana accelerators like Lotus Petal, Jeweled Lotus, Dark Ritual, Blood Pet, a host of tutors, and cards to load up your graveyard like Entomb, it can become laughably easy to overcome that barrier throughout the course of normal gameplay or while youre comboing off
First, many non-book Artifacts have activated abilities, meaning that the addition of the book subtype wouldn't add any unique identifier
Not worth the effort in general however
Alharu, Solemn Ritualist Alharu, Solemn Ritualist can be a good way to generate tokens and makes it less of a setback when your creatures are removed