Either way, commander tax increases based on how many times the commander has been cast from the command zone, not on how many times it has returned there
often called the best Constructed deck of all time: Hulk Flash | Legacy | Steve Sadin, 1st Place Grand Prix Columbus 2007 Creatures (12) 1 Body Snatcher 1 Carrion Feeder 1 Karmic Guide 1 Kiki-Jiki, Mirror Breaker 4 Dark Confidant 4 Protean Hulk Instants (21) 1 Echoing Truth 4 Brainstorm 4 Daze 4 Flash 4 Force of Will 4 Mystical Tutor Sorceries (1) 1 Massacre Enchantments (4) 4 Counterbalance Artifacts (8) 4 Chrome Mox 4 Sensei's Divining Top Lands (14) 1 Swamp 3 Island 1 Tropical Island 1 Tundra 1 Underground Sea 3 Flooded Strand 4 Polluted Delta Sideboard (15) 3 Massacre 4 Leyline of the Void 4 Quirion Dryad 1 Reverent Silence 3 Swords to Plowshares Four ex Protean Hulk
I didn't imagine it would get anywhere near that, and suggested conservatively $50,000 to $100,000
One of the quirks of the Commander rules is that if a mana symbol appears in the casting cost or in the text box of a card, the color of that mana symbol contributes to the card's "color identity." So if you used Ishkanah, Grafwidow as your commander, you could include green or black cards in your deck
One of the big draws to the original Mystery Booster set was the inclusion of playtest cards, whacky Un-set style cards that aren't meant for legal tournament play outside of Mystery Booster drafts
