So legendary colorless creatures that are actually allowed to do good things become harder to design
It requires a tap, so you must wait a turn
To return to the Thalia example, this means that you can use the "Mina Harker" version even if all you have are the Historic Anthology or March of the Machine 's Multiverse Legends printings of Thalia, Guardian of Thraben
Commander, as many know, is a singleton format
Each offers a potent combination of board presence, card advantage, and tactical flexibility wrapped in an excellent package
Well, I invented something we had never done in Magic before to showcase it: At one point I thought about putting this on a cycle of big bosses, but in the end, I felt it could just stand alone on Ancient Adamantoise as something splashy and unique and that would get some weird attention of its own