Lots of interaction helps keep opponents off your case while you focus on questing and racking up that game-winning lore
For example, if you choose the last mode of Rootcast Apprenticeship more than once, you choose the relative order in which the target opponents sacrifice nontoken artifacts
Rounding out this sample, Marvo, Deep OperativeMarvo, Deep Operative is another way to get a free eight-drop with a little deckbuilding effort, and by that I mean playing expensive cards
With the cards being legal for Commander play, it also meant that the designs could both capture the characters and moments depicted but also be sweet standalone cards to add to your Commander decks
There are 53 Uncommon cards in The First Chapter
Commander players love the card since it becomes much easier to accelerate out permanents of all other eight nonland card types, with the exception of maybe Battles, since theyre a little more unique than other card types