Its ability is pretty rare for Black
Most control decks on the other hand are either going more the direction of the agro decks and getting card advantage alongside their other effects from cards like Consecrated Sphinx or planeswalkers or they are running a card advantage engine such as Life from the Loam
It also means that not every deck needs to be running a full set of Power Nine either, with cards like Dig Through Time and Treasure Cruise being highly accessible cards
The push to help white has been clear, but WOTC has also expressed a desire to make new Commander cards less generically powerful, instead fitting into more specific strategies so they dont become auto-includes that homogenize the format
There are also some very nice reprints with Mystic Forge, Caged Sun, Gilded Lotus, and Living Death, making this likely the best deck in the bunch for reprints
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