Necropanther can give you a similar, early game mutate trigger, while Boneyard Lurker returns any permanent type, albeit to your hand
As the name suggests, these counters, particularly +1/+1 counters and charge counters, are the primary theme of the deck , which has multiple permanents that enter with them, as well as plenty of ways to add and spend them
Im not willing to completely discount this since acceleration is particularly effective in Planeswalker duels and it pairs well with card draw, but this looks like a very bad card
For one white mana, youre technically casting a 1/1 lifelink creature
Trinket Mage 3/10 Back in the day when there were that much fewer options this was pretty hot in affinity, a two for one with some utility was pretty good