Adjusting to power level is certainly one of the more advanced aspects of Commander, as it takes into account much more than just the cards themselves
I wasn't really interested to win with an Animate Dead combo, I just wanted to use the Dragon for value
Aim to strike a nice balance between lands and mana ramp effects
Where the aforementioned spells ask you to lean in through gameplay, Patriarchs Bidding offers a deck building incentive: stack your deck with creatures of a single type, and youre guaranteed to get more out of this card than most opponents
Artist Erion Makuo handles this well, delivering a Scene where each character looks fun and active on their own, and the composition holds together wonderfully as a whole
Saga creatures follow all the same rules that other Sagas do, writes WotC's Matt Tabak in the official article about Final Fantasy x MTG mechanics, and is also a creature and can do everything a creature can do. Simply put, summons are three types of cards (enchantment, creature, and saga) rolled into one