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"Frantic Search" is an example

What makes a commander precon powerful

Chaos is their game

Once you internalize that, the card evaluations below become obvious: ask of every card, is this a source or a payoff, and does the rest of my deck cover the other side? Best lifegain sources (the engines) You want repeatable, incremental gain lots of small triggers beat one big lifegain spell, because payoffs like Vito or Archangel of Thune care about the number of times you gain, not just the total

You may exile two blue cards from your hand rather than pay this spell's mana cost

While it is powerful and can be a free card, it restricts deck building