Their +1 effect can be good as a game-ender, making a high-power creature unblockable attack for lethal damage so that the downside of the ability never even has a chance to resolve
Im Nick from the Scrap Trawlers, where we do EDH on a budget, and I previously reviewed the Tryanid Swarm deck from the Warhammer 40,000 series of Commander decks
While the original starter deck contained 38 Hero cards and, this budget version contains only 26, but with a greater emphasis on high-impact Heroes and cards that provide support to them
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That is, if in play testing you find that x number of lands is too few, but x+1 lands is too many, you can effectively play some number between x and x+1 (not exactly x+0.5) lands by playing x+1 lands in a 61 card deck
On August 4, just a day before Debt of Loyalty began to creep up, and two days before it truly soared, writer Riley Hicks penned a piece that sung its praises, calling the card an "undiscovered Commander super-staple", and even hinting that "if players start to become more aware of this card and demand increases, it could potentially become more expensive in the near future." We've previously covered how content creators like The Command Zone are sometimes able to blow up a card's price all by themselves, simply by mentioning its potential, and especially by suggesting that it could soon be valuable, and it appears that might be exactly what's happened here
