Despite the effect of transforming Battle being a triggered ability , its controller exiles the permanent and then casts it without paying the mana cost , opening up space to interact with Battle on the stack with Make Disappear, or other counterspells, or even to bounce them on the stack, with Venser, Shaper Savant and the like
While you do have to sacrifice a creature to get this effect, its still useful at worst and abuseable at best
Its regular attack, Lost Impact, does a massive 280 damage, putting it in range of one-hit KOs for many VSTAR Pokmon
Three Steps Ahead is useful because, while the rates for each of its individual abilities are a bit slower than wed like, the option to use any of them on one card means we can run that many less Cancels, Clones, and Catalogs in the rest of our library
In a build like this it feels vastly more consistent and potent than something like Bonfire of the Damned
Due to the increase in difficulty when it comes to entering Legacy or even maintaining a collection, Bazaar of Boxes has decided to fully allow proxies at the Bazaar of Boxes Series