It also has good creature types, and clerics have synergies with lifegain and reanimation
Against Izzet, we take out Masked Vandal and typically trim some copies of Death-Priest of Myrkul (since it gets sniped by things like Frost Bite and Cinderclasm) to bring in all three copies of Duress and Go Blank, with the idea being we can attack our opponent's hand, use Go Blank to exile flashback spells like Memory Deluge, and hopefully resolve a Skeletal Swarming to win the game
Whenever you sacrifice a token, you can surveil the top card of your library
7 Meekstone An artifact for only a single mana, Meekstone prevents creatures with power three or greater from untapping during their controllers' untap steps
I quickly decided I wanted to build a mono-green Choose a Background Commander deck with Wilson, Refined Grizzly paired with Raised by Giants, and Ive gone down a rabbit hole where I want just about all the cares about your commander being on the battlefield cards you can put in the 98 of a mono-green deck
Not only are they a major threat who Proliferates every turn, but theyve also got a wide color identity