You want to make sure you are able to cast them from your hand as you build your land progressively, and you want to have a good chance of consistently pull the right spells
It can also make a strong commander rather than a companion because you can do some interesting things with all the 4-mana Clone effects and a Mirror Box
Arcades went on to be a very popular toughness-matters Commander, and it took seven years and a return to Tarkir to gives us Felothar, a similarly strong Abzan version of this iconic Commander
These cards will put you at a tempo disadvantage on the turn that you cast them, but if the games goes long enough, they can wind up paying off in a big way
Price = $0.35 #MTG #BudgetMagic #CardDraw Kumena's Awakening offers consistent, incremental card draw (+1 per turn) with negligible downside
Not as tasty as I'm used to, rather stale, but it has the same effect." Baron Sengir Number 204 Language English Legal Formats Commander, Legacy, Modern, Pioneer, Vintage Not Legal Formats Alchemy, Brawl, Competitive Brawl, Historic, Pauper, Standard, Timeless Rulings (8/15/2010) Paying the activation cost of Elixir of Immortality's ability doesn't cause it to leave the battlefield
