If youre self milling in any way, this is trivial to flip
With the requisite 51+ life, you can shoot a player, gain 50 life, shoot a player, gain 50, shoot a creature for good measure, and so on
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If I had done this with my first deck built around Stone-Tongue Basilisk, I would build to take advantage of its Threshold ability, an ability that only kicks in when I had 7 cards in my graveyard
The Tyrant was out of place in Gatecrash , a decidedly non-artifact focused set, and so it flew under the radar for a while before folks realized oh, wait, its incredibly easy to get 20 artifacts under your control in any Eternal format. With two previous encore performances in Commander 2016 and Commander 2019 , Hellkite Tyrants low print run has meant its kept a price tag that fluctuates for years
Can you afford a card which relies on an outside enabler like a sac outlet or self-damage