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It is an adaptation of the card game of the same name

You're essentially meant to be getting a card's worth of value from the effect, while also improving a less impressive creature

Heres a story from personal experience: I once tried to crossover a BGS 8 Jordan Fleer Rookie Card (without cracking it out, it went in its existing BGS slab as pictured below) to a PSA 8 min

Since it's a mana cheap instant, you can do this in response to targeted or sweeping removal to get cards, as a sacrifice or it can send something to your graveyard about to get exiled by Swords to Plowshares, or to get value out of a chump blocker about to die anyway

We actually played the card game at my school and it was quite competitive for a year or so and a ton of fun