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The Scion is very powerful and Spike-y at the kitchen table and should find a big following in Commander and I wouldn't be surprised if it winds up with north of 1,000 decks registered over at EDHREC.com

Aesi, Tyrant of Gyre Strait turns every Rampant Growth into a cantrip, makes Oracle of Mul Daya and other play lands off the top cards incredible card draw engines, and you can get up to total nonsense with bounce lands

For your kitchen-table needs, Nahiri should provide you a lot of value

Another way to make creatures fight is to force it to happen in combat

getting a bunch of bodies in one card works in many strategies, including tokens, aristocrats, and, of course spiders