This creature happens to be a lot more powerful than it looks
If youre willing to build the precon from the ground-up, youll have better success buying the singles individually
However, we can roll the planar die as many times as we want on our turn - but with a small catch: the first roll is free, the second will cost 1 generic mana, the third one 2 generic mana, and so on
In that sort of a role Remand is the vastly more desirable card, you want countermagic to deal with stuff cheaply and efficiently, you play card advantage spells to provide the late game inevitability and so you are just harming your own disruptive power by trying to combine the two into one overcost card
If you cast a three-cost creature with Squad 2, then pay four extra mana, youll get three copies of the card