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I believe this is true regardless of how difficult they are to trigger, but emerging from Mortal Combat victorious seems like a breeze in a format like Commander where you can mill yourself to your heart's content with commanders like Grist, the Hunger Tide, Iname, Death Aspect (the mill comes from dumping your creatures into your 'yard on ETB), and Zask, Skittering Swarmlord
In those days, Mana Drain wasnt strictly better than Counterspell, thanks to mana burn, and it really did come up sometimes
Making two 2/2 artifact creature tokens whenever an artifact leaves your graveyard is incredible, alongside unearth cards like Chronomancer and Lokhust Heavy Destroyer as well as things like Anrakyr the Traveller
These are new pushed cards on par with the strongest eternal staples, generic and powerful enough to go in anything so everybody is guaranteed to get at least one upgrade for their favorite deck from the new precons
This also has an exile/other spaces trigger, this time for lands too, and then you'll make a mana free 3/3 Spawn dork