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Its at these points in your deck building process that you need to consider baking in some incidental or intentional lifegain, and it pays dividends

The Cabbage Merchant Sometimes a successful commander plays off a meme, like The Cabbage Merchant, part of a beloved gag from the Avatar television series

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While it might not seem significant in the long run, forcing your opponent to wait a turn to cast their spells gives you an extra turn or two to set up the board

Nesting Bot is in Standard right now, for example, and makes this look incredibly weak by comparison