I'm honestly surprised that cards like Faerie MastermindFaerie Mastermind, Talion's MessengerTalion's Messenger, and Talion, the Kindly LordTalion, the Kindly Lord were missing from this deck
If you have the mana to be throwing out X spells, you should be trying to win the game with them
Interestingly, the threat of the combo should give you more time to execute this gameplan, either by building a bigger board for Atarkas Command or by having more time to throw burn at your opponents face
Based on the rules text saying "you may remove a counter," this means if you deal combat damage and only have the hexproof counter, but want to keep it, you can pass on activating the ability
This is a three-mana edict effect, that also happens to create a 0/1 Wizard token that pings just like Rod does