If you have some counters and some mana, it makes combat anywhere difficult for your opponent and lets you pick off utility creatures, and the base stats help give you time to grind out an advantage with this kind of thing, especially if you have a lot of evolve or scavenge to keep it fueled
You both have a deck for a game of Jumpstart
Its second ability--discard a creature card to return a land from graveyard to the battlefield tapped--plays extremely well in Lands Matter, reanimator, and even +1/+1 counter shells
Kona, Rescue Beastie, Eladamri, Korvecdal, Ghalta, Stampede Tyrant, Oviya, Automech Artisan, Nissa, Worldsoul Speaker, Loot, Exuberant Explorer seriously, theyve been hitting this beat for green legends non-stop lately
Repurposing Bay Babe, Wake Up
The copy is created on the stack, so it's not "activated." Creating the copy won't cause abilities that trigger when a player activates an ability to trigger