mtg cards like pithing needle Magic: the Gathering - (231) As Pithing Needle enters the battlefield Pithing Needle — All printings

Being multicolored restricts the decks you can play it in, but it also benefits commanders like Aragorn, the Uniter

Eight-and-a-Half-Tails Eight-and-a-Half-Tails received a reprint with this set, and it's one of the better mono-white commanders out there

Let their own assumptions about the kind of deck that would play a card like this distract them so you can enact your master plan

Unless the cards fall right, going all in too quickly might leave you wide open, so aiming to play as a midrange deck with big tempo swings is the baseline

This deal is further sweetened in that 3% of the time, you get a one-turn Omniscience