Drawing a card and cheating out a spell, after all, is far more powerful than what many of the Swords of X and Y cycles are capable of
It largely comes down to the deck you're playing and how useful those cards are in the current meta, but there's almost certainly going to be a home for this in the format
19 Kalitas, Traitor Of Ghet Graveyard Removal And Board Presence In One While not a Zombie himself, the Vampire Kalitas, Traitor of Ghet makes for a fantastic Zombie commander for those looking to control the board by doing a little more than generating an army of Zombies
Going back in time, it shows one of Magics biggest historical events that wasnt directly shown in a set the war between Urza and Mishra
The classic Howling Mine trick is to manipulate the tapping to adjust who gets to draw, but that seems less relevant than it used to be