But with the support of a few close friends, he applied to Strixhaven and has flourished, surrounded by like-minded academics and creatives
In any 20 life game, like normal casual or multiplayer, the 3 life tax means it creates a strong tension between people who don't want to die and people who don't want you to have a recursive loop
They make nonlegendary copies of your commander, and since you dont care if they stick around, losing them to myriads exile clause or Shaun getting removed wont bother you much
For example, a player might offer to trade a mythic for a mythic
Scuttlegator Still a bad rate in a deck that distributes +1/+1 counters, but Scuttlegator was okay in Ravnica Allegiance Limited
However, given that the card takes every other player into account, and the ubiquity of Artifacts like mana rocks in formats like Commander, Dockside Extortionist will almost always let its player seize a commanding lead