Benevolent Hydra Benevolent Hydra combines the Hardened Scales ability with a large creature, and you can move counters around from your hydra to your other creatures
Cynthia & Caitlin also acts as a free pick up my Surge, or use Greens Exploration from my discard and draw 3 cards for my turn
That means you can be a bit more thrifty when it comes to making ink, and squeeze out a few more low-cost cards using less ink when the pressure is on
If you dont have a deluge of graveyard hate ready to deploy, you might want to supplement Crush Contraband and Return to Dust with Forsake the Worldly
Most multiplayer Commander games will have a ton of legal targets, making every Murder a two-for-one spell
Instead, it's the fact that it allows the player to draw two cards when an equipped creature dies that pushes it over the top The potential card advantage is unreasonable for a single mana investment, especially since the -1 to Toughness makes it extremely easy for the player to kill their own creatures on command