Its ideal for rebuilding after board wipes or protecting a key engine piece, but it works best when your deck is already feeding the graveyard through self-mill or sacrifice effects like Greater Good
And in doing so, it created a critical mass of cards to make a new, unusual, and effective card advantage engine that reds not used to
You can screw over your opponent
In theory, you could get up to two Scion tokens from the myriad copies when they exile at the end of combat, and since Chittering Dispatcher is just a 2/3, it might very well die in combat, giving you another Scion
Then, the heroes are surrounded by even more shadowy figures, before a huge Ursula appears, wielding the trident
So 1998 was very much the biggest year for MtG since 93 but sadly not in a good way