Because you can always find an open lane, prolonging archetypal commitment as long as possible is crucial
You also have to consider that one of the best decks in Standard, Mardu Vehicles, is completely fine with you killing it, since it provided fuel for Scrapheap Scrounger
That means anything that generically refers to an outlaw creature also coincidentally works with Pirates
It just deals one point of damage, and the other creature dies without retaliating. [32] 7 Double strike Double strike is like first strike, in that the creature with double strike deals damage first
EarthquakeEarthquake (40,189 Inclusions, 2% of 2,337,008 Decks) The original red boardwipe, EarthquakeEarthquake still holds up these days precisely because of commanders like Niv-Mizzet, VisionaryNiv-Mizzet, Visionary that want to be able to damage players