When wielded effectively, zero-cost cantrips like these allow you to maintain card parity while developing your board state
Additionally, creating tokens like Treasures, Clues, or Blood tokens can contribute to card advantage in decks that benefit from having these resources on the battlefield
So much so, in fact, that Brazen Borrower is arguably even stronger than Vendilion Clique
Wizards said yesbut the set had already gone to print so it was too late to include the art in the set
In the deck its fine, but I think it will suffer the same diminishing returns issue
There are other solid options, such as Skithiryx, the Blight Dragon, that allow you to get around normally high casting costs while hitting the opponent for a ton of infect damage as well