This card can attack directly, but if it does so using this effect, any battle damage inflicted to your opponent is halved
White is starving for card advantage, and this is not just a 2-drop 1/1 Dog that cantrips but is also an enchantment and has all of those synergies as well with cards like Selesnya Enchantress builds around Enchantress's Presence and Orzhov Enchantments around a certain experience counter leader (Daxos the Returned) as well as Bant and Azorius Blink brews
Every deck needs creatures to survive and then win too
Snap If youre interested in bouncing your creatures, its hard to do better than the free spell Snap
ZEXAL manga is a reference to this archetype, both of them featuring Monsters with exaggerated proportions who can attack directly if your opponent doesn't control any of them and that rely on a spell which stays on the field
Getting the tokens takes extra work, but they scale much faster, and its not like its hard to cast two spells in a turn