Urza players would be delighted to play this card in the Gruul color combination, alongside such cards like Green Sun's Zenith and Unwinding Clock, which untaps all those artifacts back and allows Meria to generate mana further on
While it can be dealt with cleanly by a Swords to Plowshares, assuming you managed to hit a creature or planeswalker of theirs, they would have paid three cards (Swords, discarded card and creature/planeswalker) for your one (Entomb/Faithless Looting and reanimation spell offset by drawing a card)
Like most Magic: The Gathering cards, the value of Jenova, Ancient Calamity // Jenova, Ancient Calamity depends on a few consistent factors: its rarity, the printing and finish (regular or foil), its physical condition, and the set it was printed in (Final Fantasy Art Series)
The casting cost isn't ideal, but under the right conditions, it can lead to a big blowup by stealing one of your opponent's best creatures to use
There are some very strong cards from that deck that I would have loved to add, but I'm trying to stick to a budget here, and they just don't fit
Doc Aurlock, Grizzled Genius