As long as you can get the full effect of Hymn of the Faller, we have a strictly better Nights Whisper on our hands, which still sees heavy Duel Commander play, and occasionally appears in Legacy
Now the fun begins
Probably the hardest matches that I had were due to ridiculously slow set up, and once I evolved, it was still relatively easy to take back the game
Marcy: A fairly strong card with good abilities of his own, he's similar in some ways to Boromir, Warden of the Tower, except specifically only protecting artifact and human creatures, so kind of less good
Populate lets you choose from only your creature tokens
Instead of eliminating an opponent with creature damage, you could win the game with all spells based damage or spells damage to finish off an opponent after creature attacks dropped them into range