mtg anti red cards Izzet Counter/Burn Deck - Blue - Modern Legal - Custom Built - Magic The Gathering - prevent that damage and put that many +1/+1 counters on him. 4x Act of Treason Gatecrash

And second, Commander has a lot more inherent variance and other checks on the power the command zone offers

Its also worth mentioning that these errors can happen across multiple cards

Forcing your opponent's to assign their sectors means you can react by putting your creatures into the sector that would give your opponent's the least benefit when going for the -1 or the ultimate

While you certainly can gain a lot of life, no one I saw ever managed to hit 111 or more life to activate Bilbo, Birthday Celebrant

Rhystic Study In theory, its possible that [c]Rhystic Study[/c] never draws you a card in a game of Magic, but then your opponents are greatly limiting their plays

When you do cast Ulamog, you get to have an opponent exile the top half of their library, gone forever and out of the game