It has to be in you deck first, and the first ability is pretty flaccid on rate
In general, this is a creature-light version of the deck so you want to lean on token producers, token doublers, populating and keeping their creatures out of the battle so you're the only one participating in combat
Many players find that having more card draw or a combo ready to fire off is worth the gamble
On resolution of the Rites trigger, we get to draw another card and voi-la
They are also cheap to find and available by the hundreds for your card stock
201.5 If an ability of an object uses a phrase such as this [something] to identify an object, where [something] is a characteristic, it is referring to that particular object, even if it isnt the appropriate characteristic at the time