I have experience with Dread Return and I really liked it. The only concern with strong-ish reanimation in a fair and/or low power environment is that you'll sometimes come across a fatty that you shouldn't run because it will be very unfun on turn 3-4.
If you can only move one counter off it per turn, then 1G seems fine for what I imagine your environment plays like.
Could maybe add some life gain like "End step remove a ~ counter, if you do, gain 2 life and +1/+1 counter" if you wanted to go 2G.
https://www.amazon.com/KMC-Card-Box-1000/dp/B0007N7P8K
Like 150-180 lands in top left compartment. 450-500 card cube in the rest. All double sleeved. The latches are practically impossible to come undone accidentally.
This set is really nice and is tempting me towards UB proxies with regular frames or re-arted nickname frames. Especially when like half the future releases are going to be UB...
I'm going to generic 1/1, 1/1 flyer, 1/1 artifact, and 1/1 artifact flyer on my next proxy order. Have to be careful to avoid anything tribal or anything that cares about color. Or house rule tokens to not have colors/subtypes. Either way.