Giving your creature spells offspring 2, which allows you to make a 1/1 token copy of the creature you cast, just increases the amount of potential for the first ability
The creature would sure appreciate it if you discarded a nonland card, because if you did, it gets a +1/+1 counter
At the time, I believed in a concept I called a "marquee card." A marquee card was a card that could go into any deck (usually an artifact, but it could in theory be a landcolorless spells didn't exist yet) that did something Magic had never done before
Snapshot prints and ships them in 2-3 days for casual play, tokens, alters, and full-art proxies, not sanctioned tournaments
Level up creatures help with curves and give you some nice wiggle room in the ratios of your decks components
They are, however, weak against SPYRAL due to the targeting protection that SPYRAL Resort provides