Maxx C, for example, can act as pressure to discourage your opponent doing their full combo right away, buying you time to get a few cards on the field, while Ash Blossom & Joyous Spring can interrupt some effects it wont stop a competent player with a good deck, but less experienced players can get tripped up
This is very much a net positive, as tokens with evasion are able to end games through combat much more easily than those without, and best of all, Thalisse doesnt care what type of tokens you created earlier in the turn
While most Urza cards function well with Artifacts, Urzas Incubator is the most broadly useful Urza-related card in MTG and will see use in a huge variety of decks once Modern Horizons 3 launches on June 14
I rarely see it played outside of "toughness typal" decks, but I'd recommend giving it a shot
The creature type is one of the most popular to build around, with each often buffing others on the battlefield and beyond