He FORCES your opponents to waste resources, he is a key stax piece for resource denial, forced resource mis-management, and he can also allow for your beaters to stick around more, by forcing removal spells to be used on him instead of something like Consecrated Sphinx or similar
Also worth noting, while they are identified as Loxodon, their creature type is elephant, so you can use them for Elephant tribal (Same with Leonine being cats)
On the plus side, it can be fetched from both your deck and discard pile by Premier Ball
That's not a possibility with Amalia as your commander, but lifegain usually comes in multiple small triggers, so it's not inconceivable to grow Amalia in Commander either
While this is convenient for international players, since we wont have to keep track of changes to the list, it means it will be harder to find Japanese players to play the format with