Maybe thats because pretending to fight giant scorpions and the Kraken was just the thing for my friends and me on those long summer evenings when it gets dark before your bedtime
Most importantly, Elas vastly outperforms commanders such as Ayli, Eternal Pilgrim and Killian, Ink Duelist in a deck with Lurrus of the Dream-Den as the companion
Discard a card from your hand to add 3000 power to your leader or one of your characters
No matter the result (other than zero or less of course) you'll get something advantageous to you for only two mana
And while you do have to sit through the slow start on There and Back Again to see Smaug soar, the fireworks when he does are more than worth the wait
I have sided it in against Death & Taxes in the past as extra hate for Aether Vial , but since the printing of Outland Liberator and Knight of Autumn , that role has largely been made redundant