If you try really hard, you can actually squeeze parts from one machine into another, and it works just fine
And Titan Hunter performed in our meta extremly well
You can also play into an aristocrats strategy, where you sacrifice your own creatures for your benefit, using your Humans as a resource to drain your opponents' life totals without even going to the combat step
Moreover, Wizards of the Coast has a Reprint Policy called the Reserve List - which states that certain Rares printed from 1993 to 1999 will never be reprinted (either identically, or through functionally identical game pieces)
As a card, it also hits a home run as Comet makes his own squirrels to chase, digs back up his buried bones, can attack when called upon, and does tricks