While Child of Alara is still a powerful commander, this 6/6 for WUBRG (One White, Blue, Black, Red, and Green mana) and its ability to destroy all nonland permanents upon death, isnt all that exciting
RR17_XR 1RR Enchantment Whenever a spell is played, CARDNAME deals 3 damage to that spell's controller for each copy of the spell in a graveyard
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Honorable Mentions If you play in a casual group that allows silver-bordered or acorn-stamped cards, there are some hilarious and chaotic dice-roll commanders worth mentioning
Creatures need to be really dangerous these days if they arent going to draw cards or disrupt the opponent, and Mossborn Hydra is an example of that kind of creature
Even the argument that "it returns from the graveyard" isn't a good one