Plus, being able to warp a game around your commander is good, and youll be drawing a bunch of cards while triggering sacrifice synergies
Combine two of these and you get a 40-card deck with around 16 lands and 24 non-land cards
Whittle your opponent down, and Zidane, Tantalus Thief becomes an effective finisher that does better than remove a blocker
When Sage of the Falls or another non-Human Creature enters the battlefield, you can loot
I'm not sure if it was restricted out of fairness, or if they actually thought the card was overpowered at 2 mana (can't imagine the thought process, when crusade and bad moon were fine, but then, they restricted gauntlet of might, so maybe they didn't like red guys getting pumped!) Rukh egg looks fine today, maybe even pretty weak