What youre really shooting for is his -2 that lets you mill yourself and then return a creature with mana value two or less straight to the battlefield
Im down with ability ability 100 percent
It was heavily played when it was Standard legal
This amount of life lost, combined with having to make it through three turns of your opponents before using the cards (unless youre specifically a deck built around maximizing it, including cards like Borne Upon a Wind), makes for a dangerous game
On an empty board she makes beaters, with topdeck mode she can haste-enable your creature to hit first, she can kill or trample out of a locked board state, and more
Even if your opponent manages to destroy them after reanimation, they leave behind bodies you can sacrifice to bring them back again