Other circumstances can still cause you to lose the game
He lacks any real direction which is a big part of why many decks don't really want him however as he does a bit of almost everything and is such a high power card you do find yourself playing him more often than the meta might suggest
The two most common Commanders we see with it are Niambi, Faithful Healer, probably for Akosa Family Tree reasons, or Taniwha, likely about Mirage set theme reasons
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Making it so that it cant be countered is crucial, since youre investing a whopping eight mana to cast it, but your opponents can still interact with it a bit by killing whatever creature you have with the highest toughness
It has the most stuff done to it, its the most powerful card in the set, and its the rarest version of that card