The artwork for Tiana, Restaurant Owner is fantastic, depicting her in the center of her restaurant, with waiters dancing around her, her friends and family behind her, and the trumpet playing alligator enjoying the nightlife
The deck does sacrifice a bit of punching power to pursue this strategy, though
Gaining life and growing all your durdles is a pretty disgusting effect to tack onto a not-completely-horrendous evasive body, and since it triggers on ALL life gain, its inherent synergies are pretty absurd
Repulse (Invasion/Planeshift/Apocalypse) Cantrips are fun, since you do not have to spend a card to gain an effect - it breaks the card/mana equation of playing a spell
You can play the card in midrange/value decks, or build a deck around them