But there are two factors that make this card better than it initially appears
Ardenn, Intrepid Archaeologist encourages an equipment and aura based deck, to build up a giant Voltron Kobold
This could be the same bookcase and lines that the DuckTales nephews find in Might Solve a Mystery Or Rewrite History
You clearly need to be heavy on equipment to use Firion, but assuming you are, it should be pretty strong
On one hand, its a Birthing Pod for your graveyard, which is neat, and it doesnt have a cost associated with that ability
His defining characteristic is Affinity for artifact creatures, a variant of the classic mechanic that counts your mechanical creatures to reduce his own casting cost