There are the cards that have a wide scope of uses or a wide range of allowable mana investments
The common is a three drop, 1/2 taps for no mana to give any dork a power and toughness boost equal to the Elf count, and like the Wellwisher, this is all the Elves, not just yours
Seeing as you need another legendary creature in play to take advantage of The Animus, this card will go best in decks that are stacked with a ton of legendary creatures that have powerful activated abilities or triggers
I talked about how four-color legendary creatures were one of the things most frequently requested by our fans, and that a Commander product was the best venue to print such cards
Or maybe a thematic A deck may only contain one copy of The One Ring would have stopped it
It basically makes decks like the ones built around Prosper, Tome-Bound almost useless