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You generally want equipment commanders to help you cheat on the equip cost of cards, but this one helps out another weakness in those decks

They are so deadly, in fact, that one of their number has been in the Top Five for cEDH decks for a long time

Training Grounds, Gilder Bairn, and Seedborn Muse are great enablers, and it's almost trivially easy to get infinite mana and/or counters, if that's your thing

Which would've been the end of it if recently, in 2024's ( sigh ) crossover lines with Marvel comics, MTG resurrected the 'Hero' creature type specifically for superheroes, with lots of superheroes being printed in the subsequent Marvel sets

Also, he costs three mana for a 2/3 with no particularly noteworthy combat potential