Bitterthorn, Nissa's Animus (the compleated version of the sword represented in Origins ) provides similar value, though I favor the OGs cheap casting and equip cost
Throw in things like Sram, Senior Edificer, Puresteel Paladin, and Armored Skyhunter to keep things rolling
Speaking of, Life of the Party should get life totals moving too
Besides fantastic artwork , Radiant Blastoise has a very solid ability that does a lot of damage in the correct type of strategies
It doesnt come up that often, but it does come up more often than using Arcane Denial on your own spellusing two cards to get three cards is trading a resource (cards) for the same resource (cards), which makes it not that exciting, while trading between resourcesfrom cards to mana, is more likely to get you something you need
No matter, since you're typically playing this card to copy ETB or death triggers and could usually care less what happens to it