Perfect for introducing friends to playing Magic
If your opponent casts a bigger creature, you cant steal it, so your options are a little worse and you might need to rely on your following spell to answer it, but if your following spell is a Wicked Wolf, for example, no matter what they cast, you could turn it into a 3/3 and then use the Food you created the previous turn with Oko to kill their creature with your Wolf after making it a 4/4
Sometimes you don't want a card to solve itself, and other times Occam's razor proves true, and you just want more life-gain-matters effects in your deck
Its an excellent deck for beginners because it covers almost all the main concepts and interactions thatll happen over the course of a game and most of the cards arent incredibly complex to play around
Elf decks already played the Whisperer, so you shouldnt have a problem playing both