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You maintain card advantage with this Bant commander consistently, even if you dole out extra cards to your foes (friends?)

Then you can spend six mana ad nauseum to make a 1/1 Soldier creature copy of any artifact you control, like the aforementioned Spine of Ish Sah or Mycosynth Wellspring or even just a Sol Ring or Gilded Lotus

Wilds of Eldraine: Enchanting Tales ' version of Phyrexian Unlife takes a new tack that is no less unsettling for its lack of body horror

While there are many directions that we could have focused on with him, the two most important ones were the Malus Codicium , a grimoire of devastating potential, and Cherubael, a daemonhost whose destiny is intermixed with Eisenhorn and who he eventually controls with the aforementioned book