By holding on to other cards you want to play, you can mess with your opponents blocks during combat
Anticipate may be slightly better than it but it is sad and offensive to me and doesn't do anything different
These cards just arent included at a huge quantity, and this is the kind of card that can be so ubiquitous in Commander decks that as soon as the price drops a bit itll get snapped up
Whenever it deals damage, you can throw away your hand and draw equal to the number of artifacts you control, which, as any self-respecting cheerios player would know, simply means "discard nothing, draw your whole deck"
Then its first ability will resolve
Mono-White has plenty of premium Creatures worth reanimating, from value pieces Phyrexian Vindicator or even haymakers like Sun Titan and Serra Ascendant