The direct damage comes in handy and makes the activation cost well worth it
While win conditions can be good even if you do see them coming, the ones that sneak in are the ones that are the most likely to succeed a lot of the time
There is a soft deck building requirement here, where The Temporal Anchor gets better the fewer reactive instants you play, but there should be enough lands, artifacts and creatures in this deck to take full advantage
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it can be buffed with counters or an anthem, initiate card draw, tap for mana, or be sacrificed for spells and abilities much more freely