The downside to the Herald is that it does lock you into a mana commitment since it costs three white mana and four generic to cast, rather than Platinum Angels seven generic mana
This alone would likely make Gilded Goose worth playing, but it has one final trick up its wing: the ability to produce Food itself, at an extremely reasonable rate
Since the Birth works for everyone, its a nice friendly card, and like many nice friendly cards throughout Magics history, youll likely get more value out of it
We always try to focus on having kind of a variety of testers if we can
Buster Sword feels like a strong option for grinding value
When you get to the late game, giving your opponents some free lands or Treasure tokens is probably worth it to draw a card