Konami generally tries to maintain competitive balance with the range of new cards it releases - but with a game as complex and high-powered as Yugioh, cards will always emerge that 'warp the meta' and generate bad player feedback
In GY, it can summon itself if another " Phantom Knights" card is banished from the grave, but will banish itself if it leaves the field
As with most new Magic releases, I have resigned myself to the fact that rarer cards are harder to get, and these may elude me as I go on my personal collecting journey but I will be sitting on the sidelines, coveting these cards, regardless
Except for its types and non-artifact subtypes, Machine God's Effigy copies exactly what was printed on the original creature and nothing more (unless that creature is copying something else or is a token
This card loses 300 ATK while it has no materials
Notably, the second mode doesn't require any targets