There are of course many cards that have more than one treatment
If you wait with this card dead in your hand or you just dont draw it until later in the game, there are other things you can spend your mana on at that point
It can really work well with your Commander, and having this in hand and people knowing it has Buyback is Virtual Card Advantage
Additionally, both cards are Storyborn, adding additional thematic ties
This is really efficient for what it is, and while it'll be hard to get in with your Hero token, this is really cheap to move around, so you're going to find a creature who can benefit from it
The best bit is it is so easy to get around the once-each-turn limitation if you just blink it with Displacer Kitten and start the whole thing off again