Paying five mana for a 3/3 and hopefully a little something else for your trouble is reasonable, and it gets much better quickly
Beginner-Friendliness Honestly, I might be going a little too harsh on this deck
A lot of game groups impose their personal bans on different strategies, combos, or specific cards to make sure no one makes the game boring for everyone else
I have some bias because all four of them either focus on mechanics I find really fun (monarch, politics and voting, and Food) or play into archetypes I already really liked (Grixis reanimation and spellslinger)
Given the relative power of current lifegain mechanics, it seems like we should be able to flip this card into Chalice of Death without too much effort, at which point it becomes a fairly hard-to-remove win condition for the right kind of control decks
In addition, the ability to create tokens and boost all of your friends has me smiling