It is not recommended to start with this card in your hand as it's very expensive to play, and spending too many turns trying to keep a cheap Aladdin alive for this to Shift onto could put you too far behind
While we've had some commanders like Davros and Tivit make use of it, Cirdan from the Lord of the Rings Elf Commander deck uses diplomacy to give your opponents lots of treats
More importantly, you can also pay one generic to copy one of the creature's activated abilities
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It took many years for that dream to become playable, but it was definitely in full force by the time EDH emerged as a format
