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In terms of sheer lore (yes, this is something that I absolutely care about, possibly more than I should), I think the deck works perfectly
Turning all your creatures into an army with a paragraphs worth of abilities is almost always good
The creature stays tapped if its already tapped from attacking or activating an ability and wont untap when the new creature is put on top of the merged pile
It's also legendary to lead your next Commander brew or an adjunct to mill, flashback, reanimation, or even Aristocrats with a self-recursive dork that can keep on returning over and over again like Reassembling Skeleton