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Lifeline is a pricey Reserved List card that is absurdly powerful and gives you a full free refund for your sacrifice

Having debuted in a Commander precon, she has never been Constructed-legal outside of Legacy and Vintage formats where aura-centric strategies rarely flourish and arent looking for help from a three-color four-drop in any case

Similarly, the Riot ability lets you choose between giving your creature haste or a +1/+1 counter when it enters the battlefield

Overall I'm pretty happy with the state of the deck, but where are some places the deck needs help

Its reliable and efficient, but not versatile, if youre a super fast combo deck, this jumps up several ranks, but even for slower blue decks, this tends to make the cut for me

A balanced Commander deck runs 1 commander, 36-38 lands, 10-12 ramp, 8-10 card draw, 8-10 removal, 7-10 win conditions, and 15-20 synergy or theme cards across the 99