Chipping away for 4 combat damage at a time grinds life totals away and handles planeswalkers neatly
For starters, without a means to give them haste, you have to wait a turn to see any benefit from a mana dork outside of chump blocking, which you arent going to want to do in the early game or in the face of creatures with trample
[casthaven]Depala, Pilot Exemplar[/casthaven] So the big news on [casthaven]Depala, Pilot Exemplar[/casthaven] is that shes explicitly a commander for dwarf tribal, a play space which had been previously fairly empty
But even more would I give for a hundred good archers of Mirkwood
When you do, return up to that many target nonland permanent cards from your graveyard to your hand
From Griselbrand to Ob Nixilis, powerful Demons have wreaked havoc across the various planes for years