Whether I was heavy black control or green splashing a single Swamp for it, my Cranial Extractions seldom left my side
To my mind, Commander is at its best when youre playing extravagant, high-mana spells, and Thryx facilitates that
Amonkhet (2017) showed us this version of the draw two cards, pay two life at common paradigm
EDH.rec shows 2800 decks or so registering this powerful ramp creature which should likely be an auto-include in decks such as Breya, Daretti and Arcum
If the removal spell only does 3 damage, then it doesn't matter if it's one mana if it's not going to be able to deal with enough permanents to justify including
You may be large, my friend, but you're not too scary