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Correlational, not causal: powerful payoffs also get cast more often in games you are already winning

This allows you to get some serious use out of these characters when their ink hasnt even dried yet

But by far the biggest change has been the continued rise of the Commander format

So while Meddling Mage may not win you the game on its own, it is an important (and affordable) tool that will increase your odds greatly

It encourages everything I want from Commander and will be a deck I build shortly after release

The obvious route may be to increase the amount of useful tools like spot removal, and add trade off massive turns with several spells for ones where I make myself less of a target