As a modern commander, its both payoff and enabler, which makes this one of the stronger land sacrifice engines since it nets you some card draw and an extra land drop
Vindicate allows decks to contain free land destruction along with artifact and enchantment removal without having to devote any space to such utility or ever risk having their creature removal or anything else stuck in their hand
Perhaps the biggest reason to go for an allied color pair is that many of the best cards in Shadowmoor are hybrid-mana intensive
2 Tidewater Minion, and Illusionist's Bracers Illusionist's Bracers is an incredibly powerful artifact that copies the activated abilities of the creature it's equipped to
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Even if you steer clear of combos, extra combats seem like the way to go to squeeze as much mana from Preston as possible, not to mention all the damage you get from suiting up creatures with cards like All That Glitters and Ellivere of the Wild Court