When Gaston shifts, he will not have Reckless because that temporary keyword was not added, so no ongoing effect is happening
Maybe youll even mill a card with Flashback such as The Final Days, and then feel very good about it once you reach six mana and abruptly flood the board with an overwhelming mass of Horrors
It's a rather simple mechanic, but mechanics that are simple to understand at first often allow for deeper lines of play than it might appear at first glance
This can plug right into an Eldrazi commander deck, and this particular version of it is worth almost triple the cheapest version
This means that you need to damage characters with Resist +1 with 2 damage, just to do a single point of damage, and characters with Resist +2 with 3 points
That makes Smothering Tithe very popular, as it's one of the few good options available to mono white decks