mtg garruk commander deck Garruk's Uprising | Modern Horizons 3 Destroy another target planeswalker garruk deck (Carth the Lion)

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While its plenty powerful, its the effect on perceived barrier-to-entry that really posed a problem because casual players watching Commander games in passing could reasonably assume that they needed hundreds (now thousands) of dollars in Power-9 mana as table stakes, just to join the format

And thats what its really about, right

8 mana is rough, but this is a cast trigger, not ETB, so it cannot be traditionally countered with Counterspell and friends