As someone who is used to digesting rule books and regurgitating them in a more personal, digestible way like a mother pigeon, I think a lot about the process of learning to play games
Like Black Lotus, it will give you three mana for free, so long as you use that mana to cast your commander
when cast for its full value, it adds 8 power and three hasty bodies to the board
You dont have to be a finance expert to see that Magic is, always has been, and always will be an expensive game
In addition to adding as many +1/+1 counters as possible, youll want to include ways to sacrifice creatures in your deck
Not only can this damage be used to flexibly remove problematic creatures and planeswalkers, but with enough dying Elementals at your disposal, this effect can be used to immediately close out a game