The utility here is phenomenal, and one day--if not today--this could even tutor up a game-winning combo by itself
There's no limit to how many stages you can advance through each turn, meaning you could just pay the nine in one turn and have Ascendant Spirit become a useful card draw engine straight away
Well, we're operating on the general principle of getting cards from your library to your hand in a fashion which generates card advantage
Designer Notes: Summon creatures to strengthen Animar and make your future creatures cheaper, or even free
You can drop it turn two for a single mana
It does get a little more interesting if you also have some payoffs for putting Enchantments into your graveyard, but I think there are a lot of games where you just dont have the time or resources to bring this thing back Fog effects are almost always bad in Limited, even when they become one-sided