Drawing cards is vital in Magic, and with Gix in play, whenever a creature you control deals damage to an opponent, you can choose to draw a card and lose a life for each creature
When running this Pre-Con, your primary focus should be creating a number of tokens while getting other creatures onto the field with abilities that trigger when playing non-creature spells
To put it more simply, stealing your opponent's cards isn't a strategy that affords your deck any kind of synergy
This is the best Circle of Protection ever printed
4 Kastral, The Windcrested Birds Of A Feather A combat-oriented Bird commander fit for the current age of Magic, Kastral, the Windcrested might be a bit more expensive to play than other Bird commanders, but has some powerful combat tricks to justify it
And it's colorless so it can fit into any Commander brew with no matter its color identity