Defiler of Faith gives you an army of Soldier token cannon fodder from casting permanents, and is best paired with other token-based cards, as well as enchantments that buff your whole array of creatures.
He is certainly not unplayable, but stopping life gain is not that big an impact on the game, paying two life and two mana for an extra card is nowhere near as good as Underworld Connections, and that leaves us needing to consistently get the body to make him worth it
." P/T Number 10 Language English Legal Formats Brawl, Commander, Competitive Brawl, Historic, Legacy, Timeless, Vintage Not Legal Formats Alchemy, Modern, Pauper, Pioneer, Standard Rulings (6/23/2020) If a player is instructed to put a card into their graveyard without using the word "mill," Bruvac's ability doesn't apply
But it costs twice as much, so the first graph's not a terribly useful comparison point
For now, it holds in the range of $15-17 a card, but it has been at the $20-21 mark recently, indicating there is a chance that the price will return to its previous level if Gix, Yawgmoth Praetor performs as expected
