In practice, its neither, and more akin to Sauron, the Necromancer or Shelob, Child of Ungoliant (which we have a deck tech for, by the way)
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While this offers fast mana, it guards against that by requiring color (since most of the most broken decks use a lot of artifacts) and by eating up a spell
The biggest problem is that this card has only seen one printing in the Terminal Revenge set and, even then, it is the highest rarity making the price keep rising as the set exits circulation
There's also a "Persist" mechanic on at least one white card that sees a creature self-revive upon death with a Blight counter, as long as it had no previous Blight counters on it