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While +1/+0 and First Strike is a minor buff, if you can Equip to an Assassin, you get to ambush a Creature in combat

In Commander that means it will trigger every time you cast a creature spell or cheat a nontoken creature into play

Since he can just be played without any evolutionary line to worry about, he can turn the tide pretty quickly just by existing

After adding shipping ($1535) and import duties, the total cost is often comparable to buying from a US-based Japanese card retailer but you gain access to wider selection and earlier releases

You just need to play at least one copy of the others somewhere in your deck