As serialized cards are fairly unique, getting them graded doesnt add much to the uniqueness
This means among other things that whether a creature has summoning sickness is not determined by the moment it was turned face up, but rather when that object, whatever it was, came under the players control
Equipping one with Blade of Selves or using another repeatable copy effect will allow you to make copies that fetch you basic lands, then sacrifice them to your altars for more mana and card draw
You can mutate the same creature multiple times You can keep mutating new creature spells onto an existing merged creature, creating a taller and taller stack of abilities
Suiting it up with Lifelink-granting Equipment like Basilisk Collar lets it enable itself, untapping after each use of the first ability
You'll get two Shard tokens whenever Niko, Light of Hope enters , so even if it ever gets removed, you'll at least be able to get Shard tokens out of the exchange when you recast it