The goal with Lathril is to deal damage, make tons of elves, and use that life-draining tap ability to finish the job if necessary
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Once youve built up a powerful board, its almost always keeping a little mana in reserve for Heroic Interventions excellent insurance, and when playing green youll frequently have the mana to spare without tipping other players off
Some other worthy inclusions are cards that love when you recast your commander over and over, like Skyfire Phoenix and Flamekin Herald
It doesn't matter if the first spell you cast that turn resolved, didn't resolve, was countered, or is still on the stack
Most Commander players are attracted to the format because you get to play with all of the interesting cards that arent strong enough to make it in competitive formats like Modern and Legacy