For example, when Legate Lanius's first ability resolves, an opponent who controls between one and ten creatures will sacrifice one creature
It's probably the best commander for a surveil deck in EDH, but its good as a 3-drop in many other Sultai graveyard decks, though it needs some synergies to be good
There are ways around that, using cards like Squee, Goblin Nabob to discard meaningless cards or using other tricks like Stroke of Genius to draw extra cards that you can use to pay, but most people who played the Masticore played it fairly
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Sure, you have Master of the Pearl Trident to give all your creatures Islandwalk but you also have Herald of Secret Streams among other, easier, ways to be unblockable
The frog can create a vicious cycle where it's drawing into more fodder for its own abilities, all while becoming an increasingly large threat