Piper Wright, Publick Reporter Piper Wright, Publick Reporter probably wont win a Pulitzer from the command zone, though some artifact-centric decks might use it
When everything resolves, both Tidewater Minion and the mana source will untap, and you'll be free to tap the source to produce your mana and do it all again with TIdewater Minion
Don't consider it a fun chaotic card, consider it in the vein of a Heroic Intervention
The commander is tracked across zone changes for this purpose (for example, if one player takes control of another player's commander, any damage that commander already dealt is still counted)
This means it can go in any 5-color deck
The legs in question are thick, and able to wrestle an 8/8 Octopus into submission