Two bodies for two mana is the floor; the ceiling is what the format does with them. TMT's commons sit at 2/2 and 2/3 lines, so a naked 1/1 plus its token never pressures a life total on its own. The card earns its slot by feeding two different engines without locking the deck into either, which is also why it rewards staying open before you commit a color.
In RW Boros it lands P1P4 to P1P6 as a maindeck staple: two creatures from one cast means two Alliance triggers, and the hybrid pip keeps the splash math free. In UR artifacts (the Izzet build the Manual crew correctly prefers) it climbs into the P1P3 band, because the colorless artifact token pads the count any artifact-matters payoff wants. That is the friction inside the draft: Boros reads the second body as a trigger, Izzet reads it as artifact density, and the hybrid mana means a drafter can hold the card and let pack-two signals settle which engine it serves.
Sneak complicates the read rather than rewarding the token. Bouncing a token to hand makes it cease to exist, so the body you want to return is Mechanized Ninja Cavalry itself, recast for a fresh token each time. The token is a chump blocker, not Sneak fuel.
Removal math runs in your favor. Grounded for Life or Stomped by the Foot spent on either 1/1 is a two-for-one you take gladly, which is why opponents hold those spells for the real threats: a chassis like this is exactly what they would rather not waste removal on. Against Shredder, Unrelenting and the Turtle mythics, the two bodies buy a turn of chump blocking, sometimes the one that decides the race.
