Generally, in Commander, you have three opponents who have all sorts of targeted removal just waiting to be thrown out to any player who gets the tiniest bit of an advantage in the game
In standard format (BKT-FLI at the time of writing), I believe that we have come to a point where the average count of draw supporters is around 8-10 in most types of decks
Yes, you get two creatures and two cards for three mana
Iona chills out here, her effect doesnt affect colorless cards in any way
This is a pattern that you can see in most of my midrange decklists my sideaboards usually tend to have about 2-3 additional value cards the reason is that you cannot have infinite of those cards in your main deck because then you dont have space for certain cards that your deck just needs to contain and instead you get into a scenario where you chain card draw into card draw without getting anywhere and lose but post board not only the games tend to be slower and longer, you also already know what you are playing against and can set up your deck accordingly which means that having additional value cards to go with those is priceless
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