Exchanging a vanilla 2/2 face-down creature for a spell like Cyclonic Rift seems like a perfectly fair trade, right
The deck also features a number of anthem effects to pump your entire werewolf team, as well as a variety of cards that grant werewolves with powerful abilities like haste, trample, double strike, etc
Is it worth building
The real payoff is its raid ability, which lets you bring back creatures from your graveyard with mana value equal to or less than Aleshas power
Then note your life total
Theres the option to throw in some flavorful self-mill sagas like Tymaret Calls the Dead, The Binding of the Titans or Death in Heaven and then scoop your gods out with type-sensitive mass reanimation from Patriarchs Bidding, Haunting Voyage, Replenish, Resurgent Belief or Primevals Glorious Rebirth