Theres a lot of deck to choose from, so having a tutor or two can dramatically change the game
Its cheap, easy to use, and in white, filling your graveyard is something you actively want to be doing most of the time, to take advantage of whites great recursion pieces
The requirement to control another red permanent is a trivial hurdle compared to the amount of damage the 0 ability can do
We arent seeing many cubes with the likes of Reassembling Skeleton and Pox anymore (because, honestly, they just werent very good) but theres still plenty of cannon fodder in black via token generators and artifacts that arent doing anything better
General Kudro of Drannith General Kudro of Drannith is a great commander for human decks
I could see this combining well with the popular Sapphire/Steel Ramp deck that runs Cogsworth