The face commander would be The Ur-Dragon, whose Eminence ability reduced the cost of all your Dragon spells by one
various decks and strategies like Hammer, Hardened Scales or Blood Moon
That, however, does not stop it being a pretty potent spell
Whenever another cat you control attacks, you can pay one green, one white and one generic mana to give it trample and a +X/+X boost, where X is equal to its power
Then you have a combat damage trigger which works with that evasion to draw two and discard two for card flow purposes unless you discard a Pirate, it's great outside of Pirate decks since looting for two is great in graveyard synergetic decks
Manifesting cards lets you take the top cards of your deck and turns them into 2/2 facedown creatures, instantly letting you refill your board with tons of creatures when you get rid of one big one