It stops an attacker, it removes a blocker, it can protect your stuff from a Wrath, yours or theirs, you can kill tokens, you can re-trigger etb effects or you can just say "nothing will be killing my Kaya this turn"
Being able to remove whatever nonland card for just one mana and two life is really key: you can play it on turn one to map whatever your opponent is doing, you can delay it to snipe a Lurrus or to jam your combo immediately Its hard to say how much I love this card and how much I think its an egregious design
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If you need to hit your 4th land drop this turn Elder is of no help unless you happen to have a free way to sacrifice it