Animists effect also means that simply playing aggressively even attacking with weenies grants you a slow but steady source of increased mana income per turn, allowing you to play more cards or get your big pieces on the field faster
Now, it's pretty weak early
but when you drill down into what the card is doing, and the flavor text, the card is suitably perturbing
Saga cards are ones that perform different effects at each draw step, so the Summons are reflecting the lengthy process of calling the creature to the battlefield
I love to write about obscure commanders (one of my really early articles back in 2015 was about Skeleton Ship) and how you can make decks around them work, no matter how unplayable they are
Id like to give a special shout out to Rankle and Torbran, the most mana-intensive of our curve-toppers