Its the best we can do without a bomb like Urza, Lord High Artificer, and it should easily do the trick
Magic wasnt the first game Garfield had designed, though, and he actually first met with Wizards of the Coast to discuss an unpublished game hed made years earlier called RoboRally
Instead, they should be viewed as tools within the game, much like removal or counterspells, and handled as such unless they consistently disrupt the play experience for your group
However, playing them means theyll get some dirt, grime, scuff, and maybe dog ears
Thats an outrageous bit of value attached to one of your characters and it also protects you against the classic one-two punch of the meta defining ruby-amethyst control deck of set two, which would wipe your board with Be Prepared and then answer the first character you play with a Lady Tremaine which would force you to sacrifice it
Rating: Sideboard, probably