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This post helps Commander players build decks that actually function by using a non-cargo-cult checklist, so they can tune faster, avoid non-games, and stop blaming bad luck for predictable math

The card quality of a deck with as many gold spells as this one is much higher than most other decks in Pioneer, so you want to try and eliminate the risk of stumbling on mana

5 Shadow of the Enemy Yes, Shadow of the Enemy requires a lot of mana to make work, but there are plenty of ways to get a lot of mana even in Tales of Middle-earth (Smaug would like to give you 14 treasure tokens, just as an example)

Since poison counters are counters, they can be proliferated to get them closer to that magic ten count