I recommend having a way to protect it since you wont be wanting to spend 8 or 10 mana after commander tax
The usefulness of the Barrier Statue depends on how you use the attribute and race support, but this card can use his Winged Beast support, and it has become very useful because there is a card that can be recruited
With all that said, Its easy to see why a trap like this would be a very pleasing addition to Labs arsenal, and even more so when you consider that on top of the above strengths it still has special synergy with Lab given its properties
Arita's artwork appears on many of the most iconic first-edition Pokmon cards, including Venusaur (#18), Gyarados (#6), and Charizard (#4)
While Cyber Dragons prefer to do this with Power Bond, many Union monsters have their own specialized method of combining with other monsters