The lore is dark for Pokemon
For starters, lets make our manabase good, which is a pretty hard thing to do in 93/94
While Dire Tactics is almost certainly better than Vendetta and probably better than Orzhov Charm as well, if you don't have a Human on the battlefield, the loss of life is a big deal in most matchups
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The result of this interaction was previously unintuitive to many players: since that Saga had no chapter abilities, the game defined the "greatest number among its chapter abilities" as zero, and no matter how many lore counters that Saga had on it, it would be sacrificed as a state-based action once it wasn't the source of a chapter ability on the stack (usually right away)
In the card image gallery, theres no way to see the equivalent Spider-Man card for each Through the Omenpaths card