The equip cost for Rope is a little steep, but boosting a creatures toughness and making it blockable by only one creature might be worth it
Hidetsugu, Devouring Chaos Be honest, Hidetsugu, Devouring Chaos players: Have you ever won a match and declared it Game Ogre? Or perhaps said: Get Shrekd? Shrek Universes Beyond when, by the way
The more parent sheets you need for your project the higher your cost
More importantly, these cards all callback to Alpha, the first-ever Magic set printed
Artifact Creature Toy Uncommon Domenico Cava 4/3 LEGAL Standard LEGAL Future LEGAL Historic LEGAL Timeless LEGAL Gladiator LEGAL Pioneer LEGAL Explorer LEGAL Modern LEGAL Legacy NOT LEGAL Pauper LEGAL Vintage LEGAL Penny LEGAL Commander LEGAL Oathbreaker LEGAL Standardbrawl LEGAL Brawl LEGAL Alchemy NOT LEGAL Pauper Commander LEGAL Duel NOT LEGAL Oldschool NOT LEGAL Premodern NOT LEGAL Predh Double strike Patched Plaything enters with two -1/-1 counters on it if you cast it from your hand
I personally think that the deck was intentionally set to two colors to both align with the popular new character, Saheeli Rai, and to make sure it felt meaningfully different from the four-color artifact deck from Commander 2016
