Wrap Up Kitnap | Illustration by Irina Nordsol While gifts can be given to any opponent and are not restricted to multiplayer games, they truly shine in Commander decks, providing more ways to interact with the rest of the table
Since it leaves the battlefield, it will be summoning sick when it returns, so you can't transform Terra into Esper Terra the turn it reverts
While it only deals a paltry one damage each to three creatures, it also forces those cards to tap - opening your opponent up to a crushing by your mythic beasts
All of the powerhouse things this can enable from Aristocrats bringing back cannon sacrifice fodder to Midrange or Blink recurring ETB stuff like in color Karmic Guide or next door in the color wheel Mulldrifter and Acidic Slime
Archangel of Thune is a powerful 3/4 flying creature with lifelink that gives all the player's creatures +1/+1 counters every time the player gains life, which is an extremely strong synergy
Go Wide decks achieve this by playing team-wide pump spells, or any other effect which affects each creature you control. Youre effectively multiplying the impact of the spell by the number of creatures you control, without paying any additional costs and its not very hard to control a LOT of creatures if youre really focused on it
