That's 16 more than Toph, Hardheaded TeacherToph, Hardheaded Teacher or the more mundane Uncle IrohUncle Iroh has in Gruul, 15 more than Sokka, Bold BoomerangerSokka, Bold Boomeranger in Izzet, and 13 more than Guru PathikGuru Pathik and The Lion-TurtleThe Lion-Turtle have in Simic, to say nothing of the multiple single-color Lesson commanders that have access to a fraction of that (return readers will note that I didn't even mention Lessons when I wrote about Gran-GranGran-Gran last week)
Opponents in a Commander game will almost always have something they would rather be doing with their mana rather than paying Smothering Tithe's tax
For this exercise, Im going to use Star Wars: Destiny and Disney: Lorcana as examples
I just want to be clear that we know about the collision in Tarkir: Dragonstorm and want to avoid that seeming like a mixed message
(Call was printed in a Modern legal Core Set, in case you wanted to try out this combo in Modern, as an fyi)