Its good at teaching you when is the best time to use counters, how to reserve manage for plays on the opponent turn and finally, how to utilise flash cards, so you get the most out of them
In decks that produce a lot of tokens, like Slimefoot and Squee, you can simply offer one of those up to diminish the cost
That said, the difference between a fully-tuned Eluge deck and one that's merely 'fine' is miniscule relative to many other Commanders, but in my eyes that comes down primarily to knowing what sort of meta you'll be playing in, and when your power spikes occur
Heres a quick list of two cards from each Historic set that fits our theme (except for Historic Anthology 2 which didnt really have any good fits): Elvish Visionary and Fauna Shaman from Historic Anthology Entrancing Melody and Wakening Suns Avatar from Ixalan Ghalta, Primal Hunger and The Immortal Sun from Rivals of Ixalan Shalai, Voice of Plenty and Guilded Lotus from Dominaria Vivien Reid and Goreclaw, Terror of Qal Sisma from Magic Core Set 2019 Next I decided to take a look at the sets that have come out since Throne of Eldraine, and see if there were cards there that stood out as good replacements for this deck
Any deck, especially creature token decks, can utilize Triumph of the Hordes as a win condition of epic proportions
You can cast instants, activate abilities, or let other triggers resolve before the original one does.