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The main issue arose when you didnt have anything you wanted to sacrifice for profit

Sorin Markov is a brutal planeswalker in a game of Commander to begin with

Until end of turn, target creature you control gains "When this creature dies, return it to the battlefield tapped under its owner's control, then create a Wicked Role token attached to it." (Enchanted creature gets +1/+1

Where the aforementioned spells ask you to lean in through gameplay, Patriarchs Bidding offers a deck building incentive: stack your deck with creatures of a single type, and youre guaranteed to get more out of this card than most opponents

The artifact you destroy ends up in your graveyard, and the exchange in ownership is permanent