It costs an extra wingding to equip, sure, but the buff it provides to its user keeps increasing, and creating creature/lands means it has the chance at opening up a bunch of synergies that Sword of the Animist does not provide
I also mentioned that I think the new Emmara's EDHREC page is going to look a lot like what Mirri, Weatherlight DuelistMirri, Weatherlight Duelist's page should look like: lots of tapping effects like Glare of SubdualGlare of Subdual and Cryptolith RiteCryptolith Rite, with smaller creatures to snowball out of control
I dont know about you, but this gives me quite the shopping list
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