Blue has some other ways to animate artifacts that I didnt include here because they also tended to set the artifacts power and toughness considerably lower than 8/8 for instance, The Blackstaff of Waterdeep
some focus on pumping out big creatures, others work by making food tokens, or stealing creatures
Apparently, this used to be a roughly 7-mana effect
The willpower and intellect boosts are also nice to double down on deepening his sanity pool
The only difference is that it does ten damage and lets you draw up until you have six cards in your hand potentially giving you more cards then Plusle could and potentially doing nothing at all for your draw if you have six cards already
From this, you draw a hand of cards to play whatever particular game, be it poker, blackjack, go fish, or what have you