Fourth Place Engineered Explosives Andrea Piemonti Another pillar of the format for many years, this strange artifact won many GPs back in the KCI era, but its still one of the strongest cards in this current meta , answering a resolved Crashing Footfalls as well as a full HammerTime board
Not with Sanguine Bond, Vito, Thorn of the Dusk Rose, Enduring Tenacity, and several variants in play, my young Padawan
Finally, removal effects tied to creatures often benefit from blacks reanimation and graveyard recursion
Bennie has you covered with Leonardo, the Balance and Splinter, the Mentor partnered up
It isnt uncommon for this Sliver to create a must-answer situation the turn it enters the battlefield, but like all Slivers, it can be prone to board wipes
But here were designing for fun and theme, and lets keep in mind that our commander costs 8 mana and doesnt impact the board, exactly as Richard Garfield originally intended