It was an absolute menace in reanimator decks across formats, its dredge ability letting you fill your graveyard quickly and then hitting the field with a huge hard-to-remove body in just a few turns
Either way, youre still denying valuable resources to other players
Now, let's talk about the card requirements for each ability
Stoke Genius is excellent if the player has an iffy hand or if they have one or zero cards in hand, and best of all, it may put instants/sorceries/Adventure cards into the graveyard early if desired
Either (A) they picked a stronger card in the Abzan colors (perhaps possible for the player who opened the pack if there was a bomb rare) or (B) they aren't drafting Abzan (more accurate is to say that they weren't drafting Abzan at the time they made the pick)
While it takes some work to set up, its a repeatable source of reanimation that only costs three mana