In both Pokmon and Magic: The Gathering , there are cards dubbed lottery cards by the community that can be worth upward of $100.00 and beyond
Getting the Lesson creature later on also matters a lot less when you get an immediate benefit from attacking with something
However, they played well with the "making monsters" theme and, while they carry some logistical weight, were very low on complexity, and the set was looking for flavorful, low-complexity mechanics to accompany mutate, which was eating up a lot of the complexity points
The effect is definitely useful, but its not something Im going to go out of my way to pick up for a deck
Putting it in your command zone gives you access to this effect every game, so you can build an adorable card advantage engine around it plus discard effects like Demand Answers and Bitter Reunion
40-Life Matters Cards One of the biggest, but most underrated differences between Commander and other formats is that you start at 40 life instead of the usual 20