It costs just three mana to animate, an affordable rate in the creature lands world, and it also gets around a major downside of creature lands: the creature being killed in combat, thus losing you the land
You won't create any Food tokens
Marcus is a bigger Edric, Spymaster of Trest that also puts counters on your creatures
To understand the nuances between these variants, see our article on the differences between 1st Edition and Unlimited
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