Dark King Of The Abyss stands out with its detailed and scary design, featuring a skeletal monster with glowing red eyes
In many situations, a card like Windfall can actually be a more reliableand more affordableway to make this type of effect work for those decks
Or you can turn its downside into an upside by adding to its counters with proliferate cards like Contagion Engine to increase your hand size rather than decrease it, or by running it in a Madness deck as a discard outlet for stuff like Asylum Visitor
This means either using cards that create non-humans tokens or just curve out well with non-humans, which the deck tries to do both of
Serving as an important bridge between the early game and the mid game, getting access to both chump blockers and free land drops can help you catch up quickly when youve fallen behind the rest of your Commander pod
When you cannot get cheap cards you want that give you life you might as well get something really robust and powerful with the potential to gain vast quantities of life