This has a place in some more competitive decks, such as Hammer Time decks where you attack with a 10-power creature on turn 2 and then sacrifice it to Thud when you cant get through
Graded copies differ in grade and condition, but a rough price breakdown is as follows: PSA 7 - 280-320 PSA 8 - 420-460 PSA 9 - 900-1000 PSA 10 5000-6000 First Edition Shadowless The Original Base Set went through a number of variations and printings through 1999 and not all of them are widely known
It's especially strong paired with cards like End The Festivities which, when combined with Ojer Axonil, deals four damage to each opponent, creature, and planeswalker for just one mana
New and expanded planeswalkers are also a major draw for Core Set 2021
I do predict, however, that the rise of SPYRAL in the meta with Circuit Break will see this strategy fall to the wayside as leaving ones board open or only populated with a single monster will be a far less safe strategy against SPYRAL
Being instant works perfectly with your game plan of sitting back and amassing tokens as it lets you represent blockers