The fact it took 3 hours for anyone to point out that this does what it does has pretty much killed that illusion for me
I didnt have money to buy real cards at the time, so I used to draw my own Pokmon cards on paper and play with them
So along the way we get to keep choosing a new ring bearer, and eventually our ring bearer is legendary, cant be blocked by creatures with greater power, loots on attack, forces blockers to be sacrificed at end of combat and hits all opponents for 3 if it hits a player
When deck building, it is a nice boon that the equipment within this set can basically be thought of as creatures
It has the alternative power, toughness, and mana cost characteristics of the spell and not the normal power, toughness, and mana cost characteristics of the card that represents the prototyped spell