Its also a great tool to deal with powerful enchantments like Enigmatic Incarnation
Wrap Up Blind Obedience | Illustration by Seb McKinnon That was certainly a difficult task to select and rank so many powerful and awesome cards
That said, Steve Wolfman top 8ed that Pro Tour with the most unusual list among them, a Bant Ramp deck that bore a lot of resemblance to Gifts Ungiven decks, but instead of playing Gifts Ungiven, he just played Umezawas Jitte instead: Creatures (18) 4 Sakura-Tribe Elder 1 Patron of the Kitsune 1 Hokori, Dust Drinker 2 Meloku the Clouded Mirror 4 Yosei, the Morning Star 3 Orochi Sustainer 1 Myojin of Cleansing Fire 2 Kodama of the North Tree Lands (22) Spells (20) In many ways, his list really played out like a post-sideboard version of Gifts, making little decisions to try to maximize that part of the experience, rather than much around with any of the Cranial Extraction or Hana Kami stuff
Cards like Yarok, the Desecrated, Virtue of Knowledge, and Strionic Resonator double your ETB effects
In other words, the existence of Expressive Iteration allows Midrange and Control decks to keep hands they would otherwise be forced to mulligan