This will also turn your dorks into an Ancient Greenwarden and play lands from your graveyard, Carnage Tyrant to make it a beater, Grunn, the Lonely King to double its power when it swings alone, Kamahl, Fist of Krosa to Overrun and make lands dorks, Multani, Maro-Sorcerer to grow massively in size and get shroud, Nemata, Grove Guardian to make a bunch of tokens, Primordial Sage and Soul of the Harvest to draw cards, Rampaging Baloths to landfall and game win, and that's just one casting cost
Deciding what and when to counter your opponents spell is a difficult decision that requires solid knowledge of the format as well as of your opponents deck and yours
Your commanders color identity dictates every card youre allowed to play
Now, along comes Ormendahl, he has the exact same cost to inclusion as a Mishra's Factory or Mutavault or Blinkmoth Nexus and as such he has a comparable effect to your top end win percentages
While not as valuable as the cards mentioned above, you can never feel bad cracking a fetch land from a booster pack of Magic, and I expect these to remain over $10 despite the reprint, with old-bordered variants commanding a nice premium
Even they would be a better tablemate than her