It flies and generates mana of any color, which is what you want from a mana dork, especially with 5-color commanders
With a red/green/white identity, you'll likely be using this alongside Chocobos and Bristly Bill, but it also doubles the Lore counters on Final Fantasy's Saga creatures too, just to help you get to their explosive final chapters
Its not very reliant on Livaan, but it makes excellent use of the card draw suite in the core to set up reanimation targets
Along with new art cat tokens, many of these cards are mentioned above as some of the strongest cat cards in Magic, and I think this Secret Lair did a good job of capturing some of the better choices available for new art treatments and a special release
Theres an emphasis on 2-mana ramp spells like Rampant Growth and Farseek since its important to ramp so you play your commander on turn 3
However, there's a tendency to want to keep Chopper in hand to benefit from his 2000 power counter during defensive phases
