Black A series about backstabbing Assassins and tyrannical Templars was always going to have a lot of black mana in it
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But the real reason Bruvac is so powerful is that theres an entire class of card, all of the variants of Traumatize, that makes an entire player's deck go poof when resolved with Bruvac in play
Paying something like 8 mana for a 9/9 green creature with trample and ward 4 is a good rate, and the dice results can be much higher than that
They dont like to see all their favorite cards sent away never to be used, and they find the play patterns of mill decks unfun for their Commander tables
Some cards in the Duskmourn release have abilities that trigger "whenever you manifest dread." In circumstances where you are instructed to manifest dread but can't perform some or all of the steps of manifesting dread (probably because your library has one or fewer cards in it), these abilities will still trigger