With Basilisk Collar, an artifact equipment, Ragost gains deathtouch and lifelink, meaning that its ability to sacrifice a Food to deal 3 damage to all opponents actually gains you 9 life in the process (assuming all three other Commander players are still at the table)
But for a lot of those cards those creature types are treated like flavor text: totally irrelevant to its intended play pattern, and not considered by designers when calculating whether a cards power justifies its mana cost
He covers many bases, which makes him irreplaceable
If one of your creatures deals combat damage to another player, the one you pick gets dealt that much damage too
In addition to a foil-stamped promo card from the set, March of the Machine Prerelease Packs include an additional legendary promo card for Commander play: These cards are part of the March of the Machine Commander set and cannot be used to play in Prerelease eventsbut are a Prerelease Packexclusive bonus to celebrate and show more of the battle against Phyrexia in March of the Machine (and to add to or inspire your next Commander deck)
There are some cool ideas like the many ways of giving it deathtouch but thats a discussion for another time
