This might seem underwhelming but that mana adds up, making this a speed bump that can slow your foes down long enough for you to take the lead
Enels passive deckbuilding restriction limits you to just six DON
9 Sheoldred, Whispering One Sheoldreds First Printing Packs A Wallop During Upkeeps The first printing of Sheoldred might lack the utterly maddening qualities of its current-day Standard counterparts (especially the omnipresent Sheoldred, the Apocalypse), but it still features not one, but two hugely powerful upkeep abilities
The artifact tokens can be useful in a pinch, but creating big creatures is the main focus
However, as a creature, this has more synergy for those builds than Deathreap Ritual did
As soon as someone drops an extra land, I can Tithe and grab two Plains for 1 mana instead of one