The devotion for cards like Nykthos, Shrine to Nyx and Gray Merchant of Asphodel might be the biggest reason to play this
Similarly to MTGs Two-Headed Giant format, you can also play 2v2 in which players play their moods, score their moods, and interact with their opponents' moods as a team
While turning it into a creature is cumbersome, you dont actually have to do that at all to make The Seriema worth running
This land helps you to greatly jump the curve and ramp up to major plays
The serialized cards are hard to find while cracking packs, resulting in cards like Mox Amber and Wurmcoil Engine having serialized schematic cards that are getting sold for thousands of dollars
You could have just had more than one in your deck, or you could splash some blue mana to cast Vesuvan Doppelganger