Shaun & Rebecca's Animus, Sokrates's conversation strategy, and Eivor's aggression offer unique playstyles in the Assassin's Creed set
It seems unplayable outside of some kind of EDH deck that runs red in a blink shell (an idea that gets better and better with each release!)
Even if the effect once again boils down to WotC 's favorite design space of "Whenever you do X, draw a card", Azorius is happy to have a new commander that encourages so much creativity and can be built around specific keywords and zany spells
Turning life into mana, even colorless mana, is an insanely good deal
It would work well, but I wanted to do something interesting
As such it is only when you need specific things for your deck to function, either you are light on answers or are revolving around some sort of engine or synergy that you become happier paying two mana in your turn to get a card you want