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I always felt Cunning Rhetoric was a little slow, where Keen Duelist was very on point

He provides unconditional removal that every color can access and brings back all the permanents he exiled to give you a massive head start in the new game

If you want to dive more into the discussion of card advantage vs card quality, I cover this in my discussion of the best black Commander tutors in Magic when discussing the power of Imperial Seal and Vampiric Tutor

There's arguments to be had both ways, but if you can't see any way you'd be able to pay the upkeep, then you shouldn't use the spell

99 vs 9.99 and 7.99 As a rule, I like to run better counters in multiplayer than cheaper ones like the Desertion at 5 mana versus the harder to cast Cryptic Command at four or the cheap but hard counter what you want Swan Song