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Lands, especially basic lands, arent all that commonly interacted with in Commander

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That Leader is cheap

However...this is only three times as much mana as we could have gotten by using any other animated artifact or enchantment with Hanna, Ship's Navigator (since any of them can be sacced to Phyrexian Altar)...and probably less mana than we would get out of bouncing and recasting Doubling Season (assuming there are multiple Minion Reflectors in play, once we get to the second trigger we will most likely be putting much, much more than triple the permanents into the battlefield)

Continuing the example above, Doom Blade is hard removal, while Polymorph is soft removal