Affinity is a cost reduction mechanic that incentivizes you to play lots of cheap artifacts
Were not saying that this card is definitely going to be banned at some point, but it has a lot of the hallmarks necessary for such a claim
With more card draw, you can control games with cards like Organic Extinction, play huge spells like Wake the Past, and get your big creatures and planeswalkers like Brudiclad, Telchor Engineer and Ugin, Eye of the Storms more reliably
Grave Upheaval A mana value of 6 makes this an expensive reanimation effect in Commander, but Grave Upheaval can generate a lot of extra value by letting the creature attack that turn
You can also take the following actions as many times as you like, in any order: Exert the required amount of ink to play a card Activate a character ability Use an item effect Quest with a character card (see below) Use a character to challenge an opponent's exerted character (see below) Most of these actions require a card to be 'in play' before you can perform them