Jam your deck full of cards that let you exile the top card of your deck like Light Up the Stage and Reckless Impulse and then slam face with pumped up Thopters thanks to cards like Illustrious Wanderglyph and Neyali, Suns' Vanguard
Banned in Historic and Legacy, the only reason Ragavan's allowed to persist in other formats is that the tools are there to take down 2/1s
Akroma's Memorial is a classic that gives our stuff haste for swinging now, great to trigger a Templar Knight tapping that needs them to attack as well as flying the best evasion, vigilance if they weren't a Templar, first strike to abuse that high power low toughness and then two protections to swing through many a defense
Then there's the massive appeal of Final Fantasy that reshapes how the high end of scene cards look
If the biggest drawbacks you cite are that it doesn't hit all cards in a graveyard and the second activated ability costs too much, I'll take those drawbacks when I have the chance to recur the artifact with a Myr Retriever
Card Advantage / Quality Smuggler's Copter 8.5 I am putting this in the card quality section as that is the most useful thing this offers to goblins
