It does take a minus one hit on its original power, but this can still result in a very powerful card being placed under your control after its been sent to the graveyard
Stir the Sands: Comes in too late in a game to matter
At littlest, Korvold turns each of your natural Food sacrifices into card draw and a +1/+1 counter
Keep in mind that if a merged creature leaves the battlefield and then returns, they come back as individual creatures that aren't merged
With that original brown artifacts border, the big white art copyright on the bottom and the off-center composition by Christopher Rush, Magics most iconic card is a thing of beauty to this day, sullied only by the existence of the 30th Anniversary proxies
But then I think about the larger picture, do I want to see Cloud Strife being gifted a sword from Nahiri the Lithomancer