You have to consider build with him, his cost is high enough that you can't just slip him past things like Mother of Runes and steal a game that way and he is suitably easy to kill
For example, if an effect allows you to cast artifact spells from your graveyard, you could cast a prototyped Blitz Automaton from your graveyard
9: Create a number of 1/1 black Vampire Knight creature tokens with lifelink equal to the highest life total among all players
If you want to give Imodane a go for yourself, heres a Historic Brawl decklist I knocked up on MTG Arena last night thats been performing pretty well
Even then, youre dragged through an unskippable series of tiny tutorials, where with each step you complete you just so happen to be rewarded more of those Pack Hourglasses that reduce the time before you can open another pack
Cycling is a nice ability if you read the table and see no good use for the cheap board wipe mode