It's also worth noting that the scarcity of this card (as well as fans' love for meme-y Rat Colony decks) is the main reason it holds such a high price
While decks rarely splash energy in favor of going all-in on the mechanic, you can whip up some powerful and interesting brews, especially in Commander
can serve as a powerful way to finish games
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Proliferate works best if you have a big board of creatures with counters on them, so it seems like hed be a slam dunk in go-wide and counters strategies, but the problem is that most popular commanders for those archetypes are key to the decks strategy and want to avoid danger by any means necessary
That being said, at just three mana, Tezzeret, Cruel Captain may be cheap enough so that incremental value over the course of a few turns may be powerful enough