After all, players hate variance and luck in their competitive games, and so dice were relegated to a niche, casual, second plane
This opens up a lot of combo potential with either destroying your opponents artifacts or doing unexpected things with your own artifacts. Its going to be easy to grow this elemental cat, potentially infinitely, and its a very unique effect thatll be hard to remove with spot removal
"C'mon in outta the rain then, I just brewed up some 'arvest tea." The man pours a steaming liquid that smells like cinnamon, cloves and apples into the clean mug and sets it on the bar in front of you
Matoya, Archon Elder Blue has so many permanents that surveil or scry throughout your turn, like Search for Azcanta, Eyes Everywhere, and Sigiled Starfish, that Matoya, Archon Elder has a ton of card draw potential
Faithless Looting, Cathartic Reunion and Shriekhorn fill your graveyard with dredgers and payoff cards and dredge those cards once your yard is full
The downside is that it can be really hard to gain any advantage if you cant get damage onto their characters without making bad trades (losing a powerful character of yours for a cheap one of theirs) or without completely banishing them