According to legend, should a l'Cie fail to fulfil their duty, otherwise known as their Focus, they turn into a Cie'th, a creature damned to wander the world unliving and undying
For the cost of X, Marath allows you to remove that many counters from it in order to utilize one of three effects one of which happens to be to create an X/X Elemental token
Its doesnt even need to have an ability to be of use
As cost reduction effectively supplies X costs with additional free mana, when it comes to casting Hydras, with the help of Animar, you'll be casting enormous monsters for very little mana
The tricky part of role tokens is that only one type can be on the field per controller
But still, its even weirder that blue has access to this kind of effect