Drawing a card and cheating out a spell, after all, is far more powerful than what many of the Swords of X and Y cycles are capable of
It doesn't copy whether that permanent is tapped or untapped, whether it has any counters on it or Auras attached to it, or any noncopy effects that have changed its power, toughness, types, color, and so on
Or, you can point it at your own fodder and turn every token into a card
This is also a great way to build a collection if thats something youre interested in
Jhoira's Familiar Jhoira's Familiar is so helpful as a cost reducer and opens up lots of combos
Drafting was what R&D refers to as "on rails," where once you picked your creature type, you got locked into your theme and didn't have much variance in the draft as we would have liked