As a card originally released as a buy-a-box promo, one of the cutest themed cards in Magic was bound to be a popular commander, and these help to keep the price down without totally cratering it the way a regular precon printing might
The official rulings are a dry run-through over how exactly this works, with the last one covering Equipment giving us this gem:If Mairsil has an equip ability, activating it wont cause anything to happen
3 Krark, The Thumbless Roger Ebert Gives It Two Nubs Up Apparently it doesn't take thumbs to cast spells in Magic
I like the idea of the experience counters stacking no matter what they do to your commander
And when you put in the work, it becomes unbelievably good
In the vast majority of games, the life that your opponent gains from you nuking their creatures with Swords to Plowshares will not amount to much, unless theyre playing a black deck with life-to-resource cards (watch out for Toxic Deluge or worse, Yawgmoths Bargain !) Swords to Plowshares isnt a particularly expensive card, and its very easy to find
