In this way, similar to the Ninjutsu Commander cards, you can cancel out the increasing costs of your own leader time and time again
Use this proactively to exile an opponents Swords to Plowshares when you have the nastiest creature, and then, after the Wrath of God inevitably kills both your major target and the Maggot, your opponent has the Swords again to use on something else, so you have pushed the table
Maze of Ith's versatility made it at home in any deck that's goal was to shut down attacking opponent creatures, a strategy not too fondly looked upon because it encouraged pointlessly drawn-out conflicts
Crime // Punishment AND Life // Death Next are these Golgari colored recursion spells
Whenever you cast a white spell, you gain 1 life
Power Fist Exxaxl: A card like this would usually be limited in utility because you need trample for it to work, but they actually put trample on the aura itself which seems wild