While a card like Skeleton Ship being bought out and jumping in price doesn't matter to tournament players or even most Commander players, it matters a lot to the poor soul trying to build a Skeleton tribal deck, and part of what makes Commander such a magical format is that you can build a deck like Skeleton Tribal
The deduction system cleverly incentivizes you to go to combat
Since the release of LTR , Palantir of Orthanc rose in value dramatically before settling in as the third most expensive MTG card from the set
Now I want to skip to the last slot, the foil-etched, before getting into that everything all at once slot before it
For starters, a couple of game types like Draft require you to buy in, just like paper (though in all fairness, they're not the 'norm')
Phelia being able to exile both your opponent's permanents to do things like removing blockers, or your own permanents, to take advantage of their "enters" abilities and put +1/+1 counters on Phelia, makes her incredibly versatile