It's cheaper and it doesn't choose a creature type
A 5/5 Human Knight with vigilance and menace for six mana, whenever an equipped creature under your control attacks, you can draw a card for the low cost of losing one life, potentially allowing several additional cards to be drawn in a single turn
Value Cards: Goblin Sharpshooter Ophiomancer Tempt with Vengeance Spoils of Victory Goblin Bombardment Night Soil Primal Vigor I remember when Tempt with Vengeance was only $2
You may put an Aura or Equipment card from among them onto the battlefield
Doubling Season is one of the few cards of its type that can double the counters that are placed on planeswalkers, letting you use their final and often strongest abilities as soon as they come into play
Besides its own impressive statline and relevant combat abilities, I love that its assassin-creation ability doesnt specify one or more, and instead chunks out a 1/1 Assassin creature for each historic creature that dealt damage