The flexibility of an artifact creature at the kitchen table, particularly, with respect to colorless ones, is pretty important to evaluating it as a card
There's nothing quite like spending one mana to put a twelve-mana creature onto the battlefield while your opponents are still playing their third land
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Drop down a Elesh Norn, Grand Cenobite and the games practically over, because not only does everyone else not have any Lands, any new Lands instantly die as well thanks to Elesh Norns -2/-2 continuous effect
That flexibility is why he remains one of the best black creatures MTG players build around in Commander and beyond