Getting to dig for an artifact or enchantment and bringing it in with a shield counter is nice, and similarly, putting perma-buffs on your creatures or Commander is good too

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Land Color tag templates(None) Arid Mesa , Pay 1 life, Sacrifice this land: Search your library for a Mountain or Plains card, put it onto the battlefield, then shuffle
(Main path towards winning is decking out the opponent, Verive said, referring to the strategy of forcing an opponents deck to run out.) In other words, it was purely for the novelty factor
You get to trigger Valiant if you target Emberheart Challenger, which may provide some extra card advantage to spend your mana on