Just to make it clear, take a look at the combo of Grindstone and Painters Servantthe two cards you build around for Painter decks
Especially in Commander, Multanis power and toughness can grow to obscene heights, and it features prebuilt imperviousness thanks to holding the shroud keyword ability, which protects it from all targeted spells or abilities (even if youre the owner of Multani)
The average Commander deck will prioritize Eternal Witness and ways to recycle its ability before they ever even consider Den Protetor as a back-up, but morph decks can use it as a synergy piece and likely have ways to reuse its morph ability to pick up extra cards
Lady Zhurong, Warrior Queen ($116) Lady Zhurong, Warrior Queen is a Portal Three Kingdoms commander that is outclassed by great green generals
Notably, Sultai Arisen also breaks the trend of Spirit Dragons being awful in the precon, with Teval actually supporting the graveyard strategy (and the main deck Teval is also great in it)
That allowed decks to play with lots of cards they could cast without the Wake and still make use of all that mana by abusing Mirari
