Granted, the ability explicitly states "you may " meaning you do not have to do this and could reserve it for times when you have no Heroes in hand, but if that's how the card needs to be played, then all it is, is a 2/4 creature that lowers the cost of Heroes by 1C, something not worthy of leading a Commander precon deck in the current meta
Mendicant Core, Guidelight Mendicant Core, Guidelight is a nice artifact build-around card, and very cheap at just 2 mana
You can use this card to make all sorts of removal one-sided
Of course, not every Magic card can wed the looks and the function seamlessly
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It starts as a half-priced Anointed ProcessionAnointed Procession, which is extremely powerful on its own, and it also compensates for the one-turn downside naturally, considering how easily token decks can swarm even on limited mana