mtg baldur's gate card Gond | Commander Legends: Battle for Gate Foil | Commander They gain first strike until end of turn Elminster

Cards like Primal Prayers, Aetherworks Marvel and the aforementioned Nissa are true gamewinners when you pair them with this kind of energy generation

Being able to surveil 2 when you connect is actually a lot stronger than it initially seems, whether you want to filter away unwanted cards or want to load up your graveyard

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And you'll draw/discard as well

For example, Olaf can be banished to bounce Sid or another of your Characters back to hand while Lilo can come back from the discard etc

Where Aetherling excels above most other cube cards is in reliabiliy