More mana means bringing stronger cards out faster, and that makes victory far more likely
While these two abilities pair well together, even if Ukkima was removed, it deals an amount of damage to a player equal to its power, making it incredibly inconvenient to deal with
This deck can easily be transitioned into a Yuriko, the Tigers Shadow EDH list, but thats more of a different commander than a different build. This is just how I put the deck together and what I thought would be good
I've spent an average of 15 to 20 minutes a day playing it, and the Digital Wellbeing app on my Pixel tells me I've opened it every day for the past four weeks
Other than morph, they also tied into a broader playstyle that could be interwoven to give players alternate build paths if they got tired of the relatively narrow version offered by the face commander
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