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All Taxed Out Zahid, Djinn of the Lamp | Illustration by Magali Villeneuve The commander tax is often a frustrating rule, but its necessary for the balance of the format

Sensei's Divining Top, Mystic Forge, and any cost reducers that make Top cost like the Herald or Sculptor, let you draw your entire deck by continually putting Top on top of your library and recasting it with Forges ability

Those decks will often have a few copies of [c]Lotus Petal[/c] available in case you dont have enough mana to play Thassas Oracle from your hand

and they dont provide the other benefits some protection spells grant

You can use cheaper, tapped creatures with powerful enters effects, and combine those with massive lategame bombs

It slowly picks away at a board, accrues you card draw, and can be downright toxic with cards that proliferate