The best part of them though, is that your Creature spells cost one generic mana less to cast for each point of life your opponents have lost this turn
While you cast it, it is both an artifact spell and a creature spell
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Vintage kept its restricted list, because some people wanted to play with powerful cards (and also because Type 1.5, aka legacy had started to take root, which, at the time, was just vintage with the restricted list renamed "banned list"), but in standard, you already couldn't play with all your cards, so there really wasn't any good reason to keep a restricted list
(If a permanent with a finality counter on it would be put into a graveyard from the battlefield, exile it instead.) Finality counters work on any permanent, not only creatures
Finally, take a look at some of the phenomenal hatebears that Humans have to offer: Thalia, Guardian of Thraben