High Alert on a stick with the most important defender colors for EDH would already make Arcades, the Strategist a fantastic pick for a commander
Your characters and items will do the heavy lifting, but without actions to support them, you could find yourself facing insurmountable odds, have no cards in your hand, or even be without a decent board state to speak of
This could lift prices of any booster boxes with relatively limited supply
Black and blue in particular don't have any good ways to permanently get rid of artifacts
It also has an activated ability to draw a card and then discard a card, but that isn't the important bit of the card
Being playable in any deck but only desirable in decks playing enough creatures to reliably crew it means that an aggressive player will generally end up with the Copter in their deck, and the power, evasion, and card selection that the card offers tends to give any aggressive deck a real shot in the arm