Which Angel commander is best for beginners
If the chosen creature is copying something else, then Machine God's Effigy enters the battlefield as whatever the chosen creature is copying (with the listed exceptions)
On the other hand, Ruric Thar really does slam the door on certain control decks, demanding that they have an immediate wrath (and even sometimes killing them if they do)
Summons of Saruman and Kess, Dissident Mage let you recast those wheels, or flashes them back in case they were discarded before you could use them
If you can flicker it and give it haste you can go even further
Cut Your Losses The problem with Mill as a win-con is that in Commander and other multiplayer formats, graveyard abuse is rife, and you could hand your foe resources like flashback instants and sorceries or creatures that can self-recur like Reassembling Skeleton or adding more recurison options for that Living Death in their hand