It's an out to Djinn Lock and another Tuner
Grass types' abilities to keep themselves healthy with healing abilities plus Hydrapple ex's Energy acceleration allows it to keep up with the competition, especially with its 330 HP
Command tax adds an extra cost of two generic mana for each time that individual creature has been played out of the Command Zone that game, and Commander damage only tracks how much combat damage an individual Commander has dealt to a player
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If there's a cost associated with having that creature block, its controller isn't forced to pay that cost, so it doesn't have to block in that case either
In testing it, I would watch the ratio of forced drawing to control effects--handing opponents free resources is dangerous, and if you can't shut them down, you're setting yourself up for failure