Dragoons Lance is essentially a two mana 2/2 with a lifegain ability, while Thiefs Knife is a three mana 2/2 with the potential to draw lots of cards
Here, cost reduction and graveyard hate are phenomenal, and youll snag much more powerful creatures worth putting back into play
If this spell was cast from a graveyard, instead create X of those tokens, where X is the number of creature cards in your graveyard
So long as you keep cards that can remove damage from these characters on standby (like Dinglehopper, Hakuna Matata, or Cinderella, Gentle and Kind) you should be able to keep the gravy train rolling until victory is yours
Expect the first phase of the Into the Inklands lottery/virtual queue to remain open for a few days
Of course, given his artificer reference as an MTG card, hes given the most popular color combination of Azorius