Acolyte of Bahamut Acolyte of Bahamut is a background enchantment designed to make your commander even better at summoning dragons
It shuts down lifegain, which is a very black-themed thing to do, and gives you a great draw-engine that isn't limited by tapping
Obviously, this isnt worth much if your creature is small, but on something like Okaun, Eye of Chaos or Primeval Spawn, youre going to be cooking with a large payoff and little downside
It then seemed it would be fun to flavor the card as an editor
The nice thing about Hex Parasite though, is that you can keep doing it so long as you always have mana open to pay the cost, especially if you pay the phyrexian mana with life instead of mana
I originally discovered it as one of my first pokemon cards