Its second ability protects itself and other resource denial pieces in play, and its first ability easily combines with several other cards to strip opponents hands, and keep them empty
Making the deck "better" inevitably means cutting back on the janky Elephants (aka 99% of them) and replacing them with boring good cards, which defeats the point
The combo can be explained in detail here (EDHREC) Other Experimental Confectioner creates a Food Token on EtB and offers a great Food sacrifice payoff: Whenever we sacrifice a Food, we create a 1/1 black Rat creature token with This creature cant block
[16] Helper cards[] Zendikar Rising introduced "helper cards", a substitute card for an actual double-faced card when playing without opaque sleeves in order to prevent cheating
However, Reserved List cards are a major exception, and this is one of the reasons some old cards remain expensive
This card is out of the Pokemon Diamond & Pearl set, and is playable with the Pokemon Trading Card Game