Since there are fewer common cards than uncommon cards (weird right?), Wizards designs the commons carefully to ensure there are fewer dead cards for your draft experience
If you cast it regularly its a slightly pricey way of making a copy of a target creature, but kicking it to make five copies instead for nine mana is incredibly explosive
If youre willing to exert four items, you can bring him out for free
6 Smothering Tithe Smothering Tithe is a powerful enchantment that would improve just about any white deck
Oftentimes, it ends up being a necessity: a competitive Legacy or Vintage Tribal deck, for example, is running that tribe for a very specific reason, most likely to support a specific combo
Today, well be looking at the cards in the former camp