The first land arrives tapped, taps for , and can give a +1/+1 counter on Durnan after he arrives to the battlefield once with that graft
Thankfully pirates often come with built-in evasion to help push past blockers, and the lord effect certainly helps
The Golgari deck from Worlds Top 8 had four Cottages and three Tortoises, with the Tortoise able to find a Cottage (or bring one back from the dead), while also reducing the cost of activating it (allowing the potential for multiple creature lands to attack each turn), and even pumping them
If you prefer to play in formats such as Standard or Alchemy, it is not recommended to spend wildcards on spells that will soon be taken out of rotation
Atraxa Superfriends I dont really consider planeswalkers a theme particularly friendly to beginners, especially if you have players that had to train themselves to forget how combat works in Yu-Gi-Oh