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You can either play them in your 99 (if they fit in your commanders color identity, of course), or you can play a background as a second commander

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Well, Im glad to report that there are tons of strange ways to play Niko, Light of Hope, including kindred-kindred (simply include all the best individual lords and turn all your Shards into the same lord, which hopefully all buff each other), manlands, or (most baffling) actually cracking the Shards for draw

And a Negate is never useless later in the game as a top deck, unlike the Modal lands where a tapped land wasn't that heavily desired later and the spell isn't playable