Of course, a more specialized tutor, such as the aforementioned transmute cards, could put the card in hand rather than on top of the deck at the cost of more mana, but with all of the best tutors and cantrips already taken, whatever goes in its place is likely to be underwhelming
Its controller may search their library for a basic land card, put it onto the battlefield tapped, then shuffle
The main downside is that blinking a legendary creature isnt going to have the copy hang around that long
Despite this, the cards still have a massive secondary market value in prerelease season
Drawing two for three mana is still pretty solid in white, but being able to instead cast it as board protection is a great and often better alternative