The Return Of Hercules can easily be slotted into the deck without having it be stuck in your hand, and can offer versatility and niche gameplay interactions in the early to mid game
Cards from previous sets like Mickey Mouse Steamboat Pilot, Pinocchio On the Run, and Cheshire Cat Always Grinning already had references to the Inklands in their flavor text
Any deck thats fiddling around with Food synergies or artifact tokens makes good use of this colorless card, though its sadly around the $15 mark and unlikely to be reprinted basically ever
Because it was Black, this was not as important as Kavu Chameleon, which could become Black to prevent Black-based removal from taking it out
Both 107 Croagunk Darkness 60 Group Beatdown (20x) Flip a coin for each Pokmon you have in play
Key Spirit monsters that provide consistency include "Aratama", a monster searcher, "Nikitama" and "Sakitama", who grant extra Normal Summons to Spirits, and "Konohanasakuya", a Special Summon extender with a GY effect to let a Spirit monster stay on the field (by preventing its return-to-hand effect from activating)