Most players loathed how the domineering strategy sped up matches, and Infect never enjoyed more official support from a main card set
Possibly, but theyre all kind of great and would otherwise nudge everything else out
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Thats already card advantage, and your commander just stays on the table if your opponents dont have artifact removal, threatening all manor of infinite combos, and sometimes even attacked as a large threat
Instead, it's the fact that it allows the player to draw two cards when an equipped creature dies that pushes it over the top The potential card advantage is unreasonable for a single mana investment, especially since the -1 to Toughness makes it extremely easy for the player to kill their own creatures on command