The forest is burning, and animals twist into luminescent horrors while villagers barrel past me, trying to escape the carnage
If this ability triggers while you are at 10 or less life and Cecil survives, it flips over into a 4/4 lifelinker, which is quite the deal for 1 mana
There are other ways to draw a lot of cards with white, but I'm partial to the enchantress strategy, which in my opinion is some of the best card draw in the game, let alone for mono-white decks
It keeps us coming back, it brings the cold mechanics to life with a vivid story, and it makes the game much better to look at
But, as a baseline 4/4 Evasive body that can quest for 1, he's at least not terrible