Path of Ancestry is similarly a good card, but with less than a third of the creatures sharing a type with the commander, it won't have much use except as a mana fixer, but entering the battlefield tapped slows it down
This confirms the existence of "snow" being a keyword outside of lands
(To manifest a card, put it onto the battlefield face down as a 2/2 creature Turn it face up any time for its mana cost if it's a creature card.) Other colorless creatures you control get +3/+2
At least Thrun, the Last Troll comes with regeneration (and is in better colors oooooh)
Cascade is a wild ability, but when you can reliably make it happen it gets even wilder
Lore buffs like to point out that in Dominaria history, Lightning Bolt is rumored to be the first spell ever studied by mages.