Granted, you need to build up to the former part with three previous attacks, but the latter part lets you Waterbend to help pay the cost
Generally, its trivially easy to make sure this wont backfire, and even if it does, theyre now spending 2 mana on your turn for a spell that they just watched you cast for 1 mana
Having your Commander in play allows you to both ramp quickly, and instantly make a massive threat
Theres enough whenever you turn a creature face-up triggers here that I want to minimize how often our manifest and cloak effects can miss and leave us with inert 2/2s
A graded copy of the Bronze Trophy variant sold for a boggling $192,000 in a very recent PWCC auction
It has come a long way since the first installments, especially in the speed department