A very basic pay to venture artifact that can also be used for a bit of mana ramp if youre in a bind
You'd think that being blue and black would help it not rely on attacking, but that gripe aside, this champion is exciting, even if it'll be complicated to build around protecting your attacker, supporting equipment, and holding onto combat tricks how is this a not a white card
In decks playing lots of spells, or even with some storm synergies, you can quickly and repeatedly goad the entire board
Then theres Sakiko, Mother of Summer, who it could be argued that, while an animal herself, shes actually a parent to an abstract concept and not more snakes, and Ishkanah, Grafwidow, who we know is a mom thanks to her Arena variant, but that doesnt count
It gets a bad rap in Commander
I think the stock list does a good job of making sure we can trigger Nymris basically at will, and while that is fine and the deck plays a lot like the kind of deck I like to play in those colors, I really like the idea of using my graveyard as a second hand