Thankfully, it also lets you really plan ahead by giving the top card of your library Plot equal to its mana cost (as long as its a nonland card) and allowing you to cast it with that Plot cost directly from the top of your deck
In fact, shes the worst at protecting herself, because she encourages you to go on the offensive without producing tokens (as Angrath, Captain of Chaos does)
Being able to find them with things like Tribe Elder and Search for Tomorrow is a very big deal
Channel is harder to answer that traditional spells being cast
But for its first half, its a seven-mana way to make everyone get rid of their hand (and graveyard, if someones shenanigans are bothering you) without replacement
giving other creatures the ability to generate tokens is nice, but I feel like poor Nick might just eat cheap removal and not accomplish a lot