Esior, Wardwing Familiar Esior, Wardwing Familiar is mana-positive right away and has a sizable impact even if it or one of your other partner commanders are never targeted
With so many great combinations of Ink types, there's no shortage of wonderfully good decks for you to play
The cost and toughness are just within Constructed playability, and while paying for the ability stings, the combo potential inherent to the untap symbol means the adorable Bairn still keeps up with newer doubling effects
This is also the most powerful Phyrexian Praetor in Type Four where you have infinite mana so you can drop this turn one, but only one spell per turn, so this is a massive counter there
What makes it even worse for them, but better for the player, is that they can get a creature from their graveyard, draw three cards and gain five life
We may want a few copies of Duress to protect our sticky threats against a control deck