2) Vampiric Tutor You lose two life, you don't get the card right away, and you garner card disadvantage
There is no reason for that word (or name) to be on the back of a Magic card
If you want to create tokens with no drawbacks at four mana, try Court of Grace, Go-Shintai of Shared Purpose, or Heliod, God of the Sun
I can see having cards in your deck that tap potential attackers, like Icy Manipulator and Opposition, so if an opponent doesnt draw a card from your commanders ability, you know you can keep your tap-down effects ready for potential attackers from their side of the battlefield
But theres also something else that changed between 1994 and 2011, when those two cards were printed (or in the case of the ME4 versionrendered?), and thats the artist attribution
If your opponent wants to destroy your commander, they need to remove this first