Did you realize that Jeweled Lotus needs to tap in order to activate its ability? Making it enter tapped is a huge tempo loss for commanders that want to get out early and start doing powerful things right away.

We’ll definitely want to be prepared to do a bit of bookkeeping with all of the different triggers that will be going off, but it’s worth it when we’re practically drowning in mana, card advantage, and +1/+1 counters.

Exxaxl: Behoooold the wizaaaaard. Chief: Here we go again.Exxaxl: Bewaaaaare his poweeeeers. Chief: Get it out of your system. Exxaxl: 🤘🎸Unspeakable poweeeeers!