We want Commander games to be decided by who casts the best big spells, and Prime Time easily tips those scales
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In this case its again about what motivates a player, and not the outcome - Spike will play land destruction if thats a powerful deck and doing so helps them demonstrate mastery over the metagame, but its a means to an end in that case, while a griefer will play land destruction for the experience of dominating opponents and preventing them from doing anything in a game - the power trip
Blue mages also care about control and proving themselves the smartest, and their primary method of defending themselves is by outthinking the opponent represented in-game with countermagic that proves they held the answer before the opponent considered the threat, and card advantage that symbolizes how much the blue mage has studied
It doesn't have to be the same player, planeswalker, or battle that Arthur or any other attacking creatures are attacking
This is an area where Commander precons could use a future boost in terms of both power and value
