Yes, this is a bit beefier for a comparable cost, but there's a very real difference between getting a card back to your hand and to the top of your deck in the decks that want this effect
Your goal is to fill your board with characters that can quest quickly or overwhelm your opponent's board if need be, while resupplying your hand with more cards so you can keep playing more characters
For those around in Standard in 2020, they will remember the chaos of Field of the Dead, which this feels eerily similar to
Unfortunately, I didnt realise that unlike Force of Will, you cannot cast it via the alternative cost on your turn, so I decided to draw for my turn first to see which card I wanted to pitch to the Force, only to then try to cast it and have my opponent point it out to me and call a judge
The new crossover decks include popular Final Fantasy characters like Freya, Beatrix, Ultimecia, and Lightning