Plus, if your opponent can deal with your Ixalans Bindings, you now have a way of returning them to your hand
It has the ability to function like a Charm and offer one of several useful effects at a slightly overpriced rate but it also has the ability to do multiple of those things like a Command and command a much more impressive cost to effect ratio
While these effects are graveyard-hate adjacent, I largely find them too narrow to include
Because card designs usually treat sacrificing as a cost rather than a payoff in itself, they are far less likely to include additional limitations on how often an ability can be used, and youre more likely to get valuable resources (mana, cards, other permanents) out of the exchange
To make it useful, you need a healthy number of creatures and the ability to regularly hit 3 mana on top of whatever you want to be casting that turn
Time goes by and before you know it, we've made a handful of cards that have defined the ability as a black thing
