Magic: The Gathering has been adding these stylistic alternates to their sets for a couple of years, providing players another reason to crack open boosters in hopes of snagging exclusive versions of certain cards but also to inject more set-specific flavour
Its easy to see why, as Commander decks are more or less synonymous with taking a few turns to get going via ramping mana, setting up mana rocks, playing supports cards and so on

Nekusar, the Mindrazer Nekusar, the Mindrazer | Illustration by Mark Riddick Commander (1) Planeswalker (4) Ashiok, Dream Render Jace Beleren Ob Nixilis Reignited Ob Nixilis, the Hate-Twisted Creature (19) Bone Miser Scrawling Crawler Razorkin Needlehead Elder Brain Fate Unraveler Fell Specter Goblin Electromancer Kami of the Crescent Moon Kess, Dissident Mage Magus of the Jar Nightscape Familiar Niv-Mizzet, Parun Niv-Mizzet, the Firemind Obosh, the Preypiercer Sheoldred, the Apocalypse Stormfist Crusader Tergrid, God of Fright The Locust God Vito, Thorn of the Dusk Rose Instant (11) Aetherize Bedevil Brainstorm Counterspell Crosis's Charm Dark Ritual Negate Perplex Rakdos Charm Terminate Vision Skeins Sorcery (11) Collective Defiance Cruel Ultimatum Dark Deal Deadly Tempest Diminishing Returns Game Plan Khorvath's Fury Peer into the Abyss Prosperity Wheel of Misfortune Whispering Madness Enchantment (8) Curse of Obsession Megrim Phyrexian Tyranny Raiders' Wake Spiteful Visions Underworld Dreams Well of Ideas Wizard Class Artifact (9) Arcane Signet Decanter of Endless Water Folio of Fancies Geth's Grimoire Mind Stone Relic of Sauron Otherworld Atlas Sol Ring Teferi's Puzzle Box Land (37) Seething Landscape Bojuka Bog Command Tower Crumbling Necropolis Thundering Falls Geier Reach Sanitarium Island x7 Maestros Theater Mountain x6 Myriad Landscape Smoldering Marsh Sunken Hollow Swamp x12 Xander's Lounge Undercity Sewers One of my first 3-color decks ever was Nekusar, the Mindrazer

But both the Cormela you targeted with Saw in Half and the second token trigger when they die, allowing you to return both Ritual and Saw in Half to your hand and start again
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