Its great in decks that want a burst of card draw, like The Locust God and Niv-Mizzet, Parun, or simply any red deck interested in ditching a Mountain for some mana flood insurance
Some things that may draw you into specific colors are: A really strong rare you're excited about Plenty of "removal" cards that can deal with your opponent's creatures A lot of playable cards in that color A good "mana curve" in that colormeaning lots of creatures of different costs Ideally, the colors you pick will have all four of these criteria, but if two or three of those are true, that's plenty good
The Lord of The Rings: Tales of Middle-Earth The Lord of The Rings: Tales of Middle-Earth draft boosters had no chance of the serialized One Ring, but they do have a great chance of tapping into your nostalgia and a world that many consider the basis of modern fantasy
Karn, our AI deck building assistant, applies these ratios automatically - it can build a full Commander list from scratch or analyze a list you paste, drawing on Scryfall's 40,000+ real cards and thousands of Commander decks
Tokens are removed from the game when theyre put into a zone besides the battlefield, so tokens with persist will cease to exist before persist can put them back into play