Anyone attempting to kill another one of your creatures with a spell or damage needs to deal with Pippin first, and that ward cost makes it just a little bit more difficult
Akela Forest Runner is a very interesting character
There are cards that trigger other special abilities whenever you sacrifice a land (like making extra creatures to fill up your board) and cards with various Landfall abilities that do cool things whenever you play a land (like getting an extra combat step)
Technically, the art card is now the last card in the pack
There is a limitation - the artifact enters with a Finality counter, which will exile the artifact if it's ever sent to the graveyard, shutting down infinite recursion loops
But restriction breeds creativity and finding the perfect reprint to fit a concept within a universe and deck theme can be extremely satisfying as a designer and, I hope, to you as the fan