Even if you whiff, you still get an extra card so theres still a good amount of value in running this commander
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This is why so many players use at least one Giovanni in their deck.
Sometimes Wizards prints a card and my jaw drops to the floor, and that was indeed the case with Codie, Vociferous Codex
The real problem, though, is that most high-powered decks aren't playing sacrifice outlets that they can just have at will, with the ones they are playing usually being part of a dedicated combo that, if they're grabbing, they're trying to win the game, not grab two more lands
What might explain the glossiness