While it provides a unique advantage, there are better cards like Eternal Witness which can return any card from the graveyard to your hand, offering more versatility
Fogey has Phasing, an ability that makes him available to fight this turn but not in the next, which is beautifully analogous to an old persons need to take a long big nap
Unlike that card - which most people only remember for the coolness factor - the cards Autumn Willow and Eron the Relentless both share some degree of tournament play
Unmarked Grave Comparing a professionally-designed card to one from a time when the people making cards understood orders of magnitudes less about their craft is silly
It could be used to play fewer of your key cards at four copies because you essentially have an alternate way of getting them
This can be devastating, and allows you to drop multiple creatures at once in formats like Historic, Commander, or Legacy