It reminds me of Lich: Lich was in the first set, and you no longer died for dropping below zero life, although in Lich's case, you would die if Lich was destroyed or if you cannot sacrifice your stuff
Strong Even on its Own to catch up
I'm very certain that there will be Standard decks where Dire Tactics is one of the better cards in the deck, but plenty of other decks will wish they could take advantage of the efficient removal spell but just can't thanks to their lack of Humans
Dimitrov provided the inevitability with his Overlords and Harane was focused on a midrange goal of developing the board with an eye toward bringing back Back and forth they went, with Dimitrov seemingly always just one step ahead
I left out Stonework Packbeast, but that Beast is another creature that can fill in any slot in your party and conveniently acts as an infinite mana filter
The attack then does 30 more damage for each heads