There's no shortage of ways to spend energy counters in the deck, and can be used to cast spells for free, create creatures, copy permanents, and to pump up the stats of creatures to name a few
We had initially chosen to turn the card into Emmara Tandris, as she was one of the major characters in the Return to Ravnica block story (told in the novella The Secretist written by Doug Beyer)
If you sacrificed an Angel to pay the cost of Shilgengar's second ability, use the toughness of that Angel as it last existed on the battlefield to determine how many Blood tokens to create
So if I am playing a mono blue deck, I dont have the best conventional removal available to me but I do have countermagic available to me
Mer-Ek Nightblade Plenty of cards give keywords to creatures with +1/+1 counters, but Mer-Ek Nightblade is among the most annoying
Ive talked to many Commander players who would love to build their dream deck, but a single card like Gaeas Cradle can cost over $1,000