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I believe so, but only slightly

If everyone plays at least one one or two drop, and a three drop before you untap on turn three, and someone has made a treasure or a clue, thats already ten nonland permanents

With two cheap commanders in the Command Zone, you get to use Fierce Guardianship and Deflecting Swat for free, likely much sooner than your opponents, and much like Rograkh, you can offer up Silas to any cards that require a sacrifice to reap those rewards

Wizards of the Coast knew exactly what it was doing by choosing these two in particular

Gandalf, White Rider is excellent for various creature-heavy decks due to its ability and color identity, like green-white token decks and even mono-white go-wide decks with Darien, King of Kjeldor

For example, if the spell is a sorcery, it can only be cast during that player's main phase while the stack is empty