But, as long as its your turn, this incarnation of Sorin gives your whole team lifelink creatures and planeswalkers included
You gain life with each attack, without worrying about the punch-back since its got both vigilance and deathtouch, making it an unfavorable creature to block and a nasty rattlesnake to keep your opponents' attackers at bay
Ghired, Mirror of the Wilds is just one example but theres others that do similar things, like The Jolly Balloon Man or Brudiclad, Telchor Engineer
Regardless of quality and how much paella the anonymous owner plans to eat, removing The One Ring from the pool of card possibilities will hopefully prick the ballooning price of collector booster packs and other MTG products where it might have lurked - collector booster boxes peaked at $500 for 12 packs on Amazon
I remember eagerly playing this Green creature in my decks when I was a brand new player in 1997