It was central to the PT-Chicago Tongo deck that netted 2nd, 6th & 9th place finishes, and later central to a Meditate deck I built that led to 1st, 2nd & 3rd place finishes in an extended block PTQ
Looking at three and drawing one is a lot better than the many other raw draw one card effects, and the Ojutai thus brings evasiveness, trickery, mass card drawing, and a board presence on one cheap card
If youre looking for a Commander like Sam, Loyal Attendant that just makes Food passively, Samwise Gamgee may be better in the 99 than as your Commander, but the card is very valuable in both places
Although Yuna, Hope Of Spira is another excellent card for the iconic character, it falls over a hundred dollars short of the more elusive Grand Summoner
And most of all, I love my turn one play not dying to Orcish Bowmasters or Lava Dart
However, if it survives the encounter, during the next end step, an amount of +1/+1 counters are put on Protean Hydra equal to twice the amount that were removed, effectively regrowing two heads in the place of each that were lost