Because he can easily turn valuable resources into dumb animals
Socialite is therefore a much stronger card against spot removal most of the time, it wont be nearly as threatening as your other creatures, so your opponent will have to think long and hard about removing it
The consequences of their ritual remain to be seen, but luckily for them, despite the fact that they are largely alone, they still have Sigarda, Champion of Light, on their side: Innistrad: Midnight Hunt hits store shelves on September 24th.
It even steals something when it enters
It reads as very anti-social, and ironically works better as a creature in dedicated reanimator builds than it ever will as a commander, where the element of surprise is lost, and your friends will be grumpy as soon as you sit down
Why not use this sweet copy of Young Wolf