Edgar Markov puts an incredible amount of pressure on the board early, and playing some amazing MTG cards with low-mana costs from your hand will help you flood the board before turn four
Dawn's Truce looks slightly worse because you need to gift somebody a card for the protection, but in a political format like Commander, a gift is just the path to friendship
That aside, Ardenn also allows you to attach any number of your in-play Auras and Equipment cards to any permanent or player which is also a pretty useful ability, as Im sure youll agree
That's why the top players are top players - it's because they can be as consistent as possible, even though there's so much variance in the game
Before a spell resolves, you can cast Failure to bounce it to its opponents hand, which means they wasted mana trying to cast this spell
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