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Although Mendicant Core is handicapped by the Start Your Engines mechanic, it can be an incredibly powerful card: tuned to peak efficiency, it can, for example, vomit out extra mana rocks to feed an army of unstoppable Karnstructs
, Sacrifice a creature and a snow Swamp: Destroy target creature
If you do, when this creature enters, create a 1/1 token copy of it.) This creature can't be blocked by creatures with power 2 or less
Good token commanders in MTG must have at least 1 of the following 3 characteristics: The ability to generate a large number of tokens at a proportionally low mana and opportunity cost Easily repeatable token generation Strong supporting effects for tokens that justify not being able to create tokens Good token commanders also can have the following traits in conjunction with the above: Fast, accessible payoffs for creating your tokens, such as giving them haste, boosting their power, or gaining effects when they die Potential for establishing infinite combos with your tokens Miscellaneous useful effects Many of the strongest token commanders have multiple traits from the lists above and contain access to green and/or white cards, as these colors have the most powerful support cards for token strategies, many of which were shown earlier
The best example of this is mill, which meant to put cards from your library into your graveyard long before it was formally codified in Core Set 2021
