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you can run almost any spider ever printed, including Arasta of the Endless Web for some Spider token generation

As it turns out, a lot of the visual cues on MTG cards that are usual nowadays hadnt yet been introduced back then

Swap it for Winged Words which will just outright draw you two cards, rather than exiling them, for the exact same cost if you have your Commander in play

In that case, it succeeds at exiling it

Erik then later moved it up to rare in development as at uncommon it was warping Limited play

In a more open environment, youre not guaranteed that to be the case, although Ill say in each of the last dozen or so games Ive played, Thief of Blood would have paid some dividends (save for the life loss might have been too high)