But Magic's best pirate becomes a dominant enough force in those opening turns, or perhaps as a follow-up to a sweeper, that you should still consider playing it
While this isn't an exact science (since expensive reprints will limit the price of new cards, which might be hurting the Bant deck a bit, since it has the highest-value reprints), this system works pretty well in general
When the equipped Smaug token attacks in a Commander game, it creates token copies that attack other players then die immediately to the legend rule, yielding dozens of Treasure tokens
No attacking or blocking happens here, but you can use this step to affect the upcoming combat (e.g., tap an opponent's creature so it can't block)
Mystery Booster 2 Alchemy Card Notes Forsaken Crossroads Land Forsaken Crossroads enters the battlefield tapped
You can cast another spell from among the milled cards using the permission granted by Locke's last ability.