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Rapacious One I tend to talk quite a bit in my articles about PreDH, a form of Commander that utilizes a card pool predating the first Commander precons

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You can play it on big creatures for late-game dominance or on early plays like Wood Elves to set up explosive turns later

Ramp For Counter-related stuff, there's Devoted Druid, Incubation Druid, Rishkar, Peeme Renegade, and a bunch of other stuff

Weve seen Scry play in this vein with Flameblade Adept and Knowledge and Powerthe only two Scry-matters card to the best of my recollection, unless you count cards like Riddle of Lightning

Since Pithing Needle is a colorless card, any deck can take advantage of it and it's a staple in many sideboards