In most formats, losing life can be detrimental, but in Commander it is much more easily worked around, making the drawbacks of both cards not bad
The Commander Lord of the Nazgl gives you a straightforward, three-step process to lead you to victory: Casts instants and sorceries Create Wraiths Attack with nine or more 9/9 wraiths with evasion Where commanders like Talrand, Sky Summoner and Alela, Artful Provocateur give you a similar cast spell, make token strategy, Lord of the Nazgl also empowers all the tokens on its own
Thats more Treasure than youll probably ever get from a single Smothering Tithe
Currently SCG is sold out of this one as well, with a NM price tag of $86.29
As I explained above, it's an important part of in-store activity