The card launched at roughly 30,000 and has since appreciated to 45,000 reflecting strong and growing collector demand for Cynthias cards
Sure, you can represent a 1/1 Soldier with a die, a coin, or a Hot Cheeto if it's a Red Soldier, but actual tokens just make the game cleaner
The best scenario is when you trade your creature with the opposing creature and get the death trigger
+1/+0 is minor, but vigilance is so much better than people give it credit for, and you can ward off attacks while drawing cards with the tap ability
We have two werewolves that do just that: Daybreak Ranger and, yes, Ulrich of the Krallenhorde, but Gruul has tons of excellent cards that enable fighting like Ulvenwald Tracker and the new Domri, Anarch of Bolas