Hes also just a very cheap way to generate 4/4 creature tokens which you can keep alive more easily if you just dont distribute any bounty counters
An 8/20 on its own would be bad enough, but this thing redirects all damage dealt to you or other permanents you control onto itself, effectively blocking the next 20 damage you take
Since theyre created tokens and not copies of another card, they have a mana value of 0 and can be removed immediately by cards like Ratchet Bomb
You might be worried about small creatures getting outclassed at the Commander table, but white is the home of small creatures, giving you tools like The Battle of Bywater, Dusk / Dawn, and Assemble the Players to extract the most possible value from your little guys
First, Abzan decks offer you what many would consider the strongest pool of cards for building a reanimator deck
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