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Rather than having you reveal your whole hand, the printed version allows you to reveal the artifacts in your hand

The card contributes pretty much nothing to combat aside from being the occasional chump blocker, but the damage it stacks up from creature combat and removal spells makes up for that

The interesting part here is that Akoum Warrior is a nice alternative mode as a land, making this card extremely useful in Limited

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Demonstrate Spells This batch of spells from Commander 2021 introduced us to the demonstrate mechanic, which lets you double up on a spell by also allowing one of your opponents to copy that spell

Even more unexpected was how big the gap in quality was between the two decks