However, if you choose any targets for the ability and each of them becomes an illegal target, the ability doesn't resolve and you don't create any tokens
The one thing it does have over the Butcher, and indeed some of the other good top end stuff, is that you can reasonably expect to protect it
In reality, its much more like Inner-Flame Acolyte, though the difference between two damage and three damage is a big one
Frog would be proud, but if you wanted to take this theme a bit further and make the deck decidedly more casual, you could drop out the combo pieces and really embrace your inner amphibian
As with any critic with any kind of worthwhile opinions, I began with my own presuppositions and biases (my #1 deck didn't change despite poring over dozens of historical Top 8s and ancient .txt format tournament reports on what remains of The Dojo)