It could take you 60 booster boxes to find that chase card
Fact or Fiction style effects are just fun for everyone involved, so this also ends up being an enjoyable commander to play against, too
The blue creatures, for example, flipped whenever you played a spell
"[Type]cycling [cost]" means "[Cost], Discard this card: Search your library for a [type] card, reveal it, put it into your hand, then shuffle." This type is usually a subtype (as in "Mountaincycling") but can be any card type, subtype, supertype, or combination thereof (as in "basic landcycling")
Archaeomancer Ive already discussed how playing or returning spells from your graveyard is the best way to extract all the value you can from your cards
Still, it could seem like a fine include for a Simic counters deck because it does a nice Malakir Cullblade impression at four mana