You do need to play him in a very synergistic deck to abuse his abilities, so the natural home is alongside creatures with the Undying ability
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FromTheShire: A deathtouching blocker that returns straight to the battlefield over and over is super useful, especially since the trigger is something you're going to be doing a bunch anyway
The short answer is that in general you get a reasonable amount of value over a Raven's Crime, both information and disruption, however there is a significant delay on the relevance of that disruption
Plus, its an evasive lifelinker, so it can trigger itself whenever it deals damage
We can safely cut cards that don't match any of the above criteria