It is still quite a big risk to play it as it will sit in hand hurting your burst and synergy until you are able to play it
There are some mechanical threads connecting the team-up cards to the characters solo cards, but ultimately their implementation is purely flavor. Powerful Potential For better or worse, its unclear how much team-up cards will be used following March of the Machine
In 2020, it announced it was completely removing seven racist cards from the game, including the notorious Invoke Prejudice and Jihad
They even found scraps of shapeshifter corpse dressed in the Dimir guildmaster's clothing amongst the ruins afterwards, so surely, he must have been killed
In essence, you get to draw two cards and play more land every time you hit an opponent with this, and thats going to add up to a lot of extra value very quickly