Shockingly, when you look at all of the cards seeing play in Standard, Harsh Mentor misses on a great deal of them, but even if it does, a 2/2 for two is still reasonable
This ensures
Of these, clearly Corruption of Towashi is the best hit, since it gives you free card draw for as long as its out, but dont count out the other two either
Release date: 1994-04-01 Air Elemental Aladdin's Lamp Aladdin's Ring Animate Artifact Animate Dead Animate Wall Ankh of Mishra Armageddon Armageddon Clock Aspect of Wolf Atog Bad Moon Badlands Balance Basalt Monolith Bayou Benalish Hero Birds of Paradise Black Knight Black Vise Black Ward Blessing Blue Elemental Blast Blue Ward Bog Wraith Bottle of Suleiman Braingeyser Brass Man Burrowing Castle Celestial Prism Channel Chaoslace Circle of Protection: Black Circle of Protection: Blue Circle of Protection: Green Circle of Protection: Red Circle of Protection: White Clockwork Beast Clone Cockatrice Conservator Contract from Below Control Magic Conversion Copy Artifact Counterspell Craw Wurm Creature Bond Crumble Crusade Crystal Rod Cursed Land Dancing Scimitar Dark Ritual Darkpact Death Ward Deathgrip Deathlace Demonic Attorney Demonic Hordes Demonic Tutor Desert Twister Dingus Egg Disenchant Disintegrate Disrupting Scepter Dragon Engine Dragon Whelp Drain Life Drain Power Drudge Skeletons
This pops up in quite a few decks as a reliable enough two-mana counter
Sure, this adds up, but having 40 life in Commander takes a lot of the sting away
