You can rely on the effects on some of your fatties to cover you but sometimes you are just hoping to outright win with your combo and really you just want some removal to buy a little bit of time
Wrap Up Wasteland | Illustration by Mark Poole While mass land destruction gets plenty of hate from Commander players and Magic players in general, nonbasic land destruction, especially the pinpoint variety, serves the vital purpose of ensuring utility lands like Field of the Dead and Nykthos, Shrine to Nyx don't just run away with the game
Sure, most of the time, you'll roughly break even in terms of value, but by buying every drop, you guarantee that you'll end up with the drops that are worth significantly more than their cost as well
People have gotten their chance to look closely at the Commander Precons and give their opinions on the effects it will have on the singleton and eternal formats such as Legacy (spoiler, the consensus is not a ton!)
As I explained in my last article, you have to stay ahead of the curve by making decisions that are in step with how the players in your local area view the metagame
Flying, lifelink, haste