The Locust God The Locust God is a great commander in its own right, and in Captain Howler, it's a great way to get a bigger battlefield presence
Combine this with an inflated interested in collectible TCGs' rarest targets spurred by the pandemic and, while nowhere near its peak, maintaining a fair bit of popularity on streams and YouTube
Initial demand is softer for these cards than it is for most non-reprint sets, where the available supply starts at zero and a whole bunch of Standard players are clamoring for their staples
Also, Cyclonic Rift is one of the game's few instant-speed board wipes, so the caster can play it right before their own turn, then untap on a one-sided board state
As long as the enchantment has those counters, your creatures will enter with that many additional +1/+1 counters