It's a Lord and Priest of Titania in one card, but it only taps for your Elves and costs another mana, so it's slower than the Priest in mana made and speed of tapping
The abilities are thematic and great, reducing the costs of spells and artifacts as befits an artificer, creating constructs, gathering knowledge, and exiling/ destroying everything in his path
More FF16 Villains Could Get Partner Printings Benedikta Harman Seems Like A Shoo-In For An MTG Card Although there likely won't be many decks using both Hugo and Barnabas, I can see at least one other Final Fantasy 16 villain getting a Magic: The Gathering Partner card
It's just great value and a personal Izzet staple
Throw in Amulet of Vigor, and you can use those lands right away
You may play lands from your graveyard