Its also worth noting that the demand here is purely driven by Commander, which can often be flimsy
Unfortunately, that is not the case anymore
Doing any or all of these at instant speed can allow you to set up game-ending turns out of seemingly nowhere, and its all tacked onto a counterspell
It's a bit like a Voltron deck (ones that focus on using only one creature for combat), but can also work without your commander on the battlefield with all of your Warrior tokens able to be used in combat if Baylen isn't with them
and, even rarer, anthropomorphic versions of famous planeswalkers
Because you essentially have zero time to answer him and because there is no fatty hate on the level of Rest in Peace or even Tormods Crypt / Surgical Extraction, you have to either manage to preemptively deal with the decks engine or youre pretty much dead, making adapting to the strategy sufficiently to compensate for a weak game 1 matchup essentially impossible