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Opponents wont know whats coming, and you avoid sorcery-speed board wipes
You can pat yourself on the back for clever use of the legend rule to be your sacrifice outlet, and yes you come out with a measly one treasure per transaction, a lot of other triggers happened along the way, when a creature dies, when an artifact comes into play or is sacrificed, those payoffs can win you the game
Normally you want to try save Phantasmal Image for Drogskol Captain, though, to make all your creatures hexproof
Obviously, it rotated out years ago, but during its time in Standard, Ojutai lived life to the fullest as the win condition for many a control deck