This is a fun unique deck Budget Commander: Hurray Shirei
As stated above, if you have a multicolored deck that has green in it, my tip is to lean your manabase more towards green and use some of the spells found in The Best Green Ramp Spells guide to fix your colors
You dont have to start with the commander to build every Commander deck, but its a good way to begin to define what your deck will do
Phased out creatures don't leave the battlefield, so you won't lose your tokens, and when they phase back in they won't have summoning sickness
This influx of interest in fake cards has pushed the counterfeiters to new heightsjust look at the "progress milestones" of one major counterfeiter above
The fact that it costs eight mana also hardly seems like a concern, given how easily green can pull ahead of other colors with land ramp and mana dorks