To determine the total cost of a spell, start with the mana cost or alternative cost you're paying (such as a flashback cost), add any cost increases (such as kicker costs), then apply any cost reductions (such as that of Danitha Capashen's last ability)
Once you have threshold, you can start making 8/8 tokens, and you can engineer this situation quickly with fetch lands or self-mill
It's an excellent protection spell that makes great use of its flexibility to adapt on the fly to the state of the game
It's in these humans joining together where one of the new mechanics of Innistrad: Midnight Hunt can be found: Coven
Still, easy to imagine a world where you want a maindeck answer to Lessons, Momo, and Reanimator that still has game against landfall and this will work
Were in Magic land, obviously, so anything is potentially capable of speech but the main thought here is could I see this possibly being a pet? Its a little fuzzy of a rule, but a good start