Theres a growing subset of creatures who balance out a lower-than-usual cost by entering play asleep with a bunch of stun counters on them: copy them with Alteration, and you can turn your 1/1 into a full-power Arixmethes or The Watcher in the Water
For example, here on Jundthe green, black, and red piece of Alara that brought us the There's also another ability that's next to this symbol and talks about chaos ensuingwe'll get to that in a second
There's a good reason why this is one of the most favored Commander options from the pre-con deck, based on early reactions.
Because this deck came out in 2022, some strategies have eventually replaced the cards that were used from this deck, but many others have stood the test of time
Magic: The Gathering's Power 9 Explained Weve referred to the Power 9 in this list a few times, so heres every entry, and their effects