If you ask a Magic designer to make Magic cards in their free time, theyll make something really weird . Even if one ends up clearly out of line, Verheys philosophy is that everything can be fun for three rounds, which is the most youll ever play with a given card in a single event
It mimics the famous Black Lotus, but the mana can only be used for your commander
Ikoria actually took this a step further by having cycling on so many different commons, meaning that decks focused on the cycling mechanic could play lots of cards that were effectively just blank cyclers
The flexibility of having a cheap early Commander that can become a better one later is huge
(Choose any number of permanents and/or players, then give each another counter of each kind already there.) Whenever this creature deals combat damage to a player, that player gets two rad counters if they don't have any rad counters
Give this deck a spin, or change some cards to build it in a fun and unique way