Nowadays, interestingly enough, you can get very affordable and very expensive versions of the card
Although it will be unable to attack during the turn in which it's played, you can use your Leader's effect to swap its power with a Character played on a previous turn, allowing that Character to attack in its stead
The lifecost is interesting, since black has historically been better at card draw than green, but this seems to argue in a different direction, although green has always been good at drawing through creatures, specifically
There are plenty of ways to turn this into a formidable creature in the early game, especially with Warp
This version of the original Theros block god revolves around putting coin counters on creatures that allow them to return to the battlefield instead of going to the graveyard or exile