Not a bad rate, and being able to protect yourself from future spells is a strong ability
Meathook Massacre II After you get Meathook Massacre II down, everyone has to pay 3 life when their creatures die, or you steal them with finality counters
The whole deck is basically built around these strategies with several ways to amass orcs, tons of support for spellslinging, and support for reanimation, either as big creatures to reanimate, discard to send them to the graveyard, or actual ways to reanimate them
Some great ways to double up on elves in a pinch are Elvish Promenade, Galadhrim Ambush, and Second Harvest
These versions illustrate them at different stages of their story and development, and each card comes with unique powers and actions
However, being able to shrewdly recycle your army's deck's resources into more warriors for conquest and providing a boost, minor as it is, to the combat efficacy of another unit is at least something