mtg random commander deck Custom Deck*** Maelstrom Wanderer - Big Creature Chaos - Magic Card 10 Double Budget Commander Deck - Random

Slash of Light: Power level ranking Slash of Light boasts iconic art, awesome flavor, and good synergy with established mechanics

Combined with an easily searchable legendary 3/3 body with reach and ward 1, Varis might just be worth passing up a cantrip for in the right decks

Card advantage players

The attacking/blocking phase timings have changed multiple times in my play memory

Decks that want to play counters are almost always control decks, and control decks would much prefer to gain life rather than cause opponents to lose life, so all things being equal they would have preferred to play with Absorb but there were other considerations that forced most of them down the black road instead