mtg xanathar commander deck Xanathar, Guild Kingpin Art Card (Gold-Stamped Signature) • Art Series: Adventures in the Forgotten Realms (AAFR) #29 and you may spend mana as though it were mana of any color to cast spells this way. Xanathar Guild Kingpin ✨ Borderless

CMC is a pretty technical name for what it represents, and the designers always look to find ways to simplify game terms

Hence, Warg Rider

To represent the token, you have three choices: (1) Use the printed token included in some Unfinity booster packs, (2) use another printed Magic card or token as a substitute, or (3) use anything else, read the next ruling, and be slightly sad

I think that there are some extremely good decks out there that can find a way to abuse the various cards like this that care about creature types

This 5/3 with flying has two other abilities

You get to hit your land drops, you have cards to discard to effects (and perhaps recur with others), and youre thinning your deck to ensure that subsequent draws have a higher chance of being spells than lands