It's worth noting that it only requires you to sacrifice a Food, but not necessarily to the Food's activated ability: ways to just pitch artifacts for free will help a lot if you don't have tons of mana to dump into the activated ability here
As it turns out, many combat triggers happen when a creature of yours attacks, making them copyable with Isshins ability
Constructed : For the same reason I stated above, Mistrise Village is seeing play in Constructed formats like Modern and Standard
Lastly, and most importantly, how sets are designed is heavily influenced by the means of packaging the set in booster packs, said Rosewater
The first is 35 cents, and then some like Elvish Mystic printed less is 0.49, and then ditto Avacyn's Pilgrim