Hence, including at least one of these two cards already gives you a tiny chance of not getting locked down by a Propaganda
Etali, Primal Conqueror / Etali, Primal Sickness Etali, Primal Conqueror has a very similar ability to its counterpart Etali, Primal Storm, but what sets this one apart from the former is that you can use it as a Gruul commander thanks to its dual color identity
If were going to upgrade it (which is the point of this whole article, so yeah, we are), my first inclination is to go a little old-school with it and bring the deck a little more in line with classic lands-based strategies of old
Even casting it for its prototype cost is fine getting a three-mana 3/3 with those abilities helps prevent aggressive decks from getting out of hand
DPEs main job is to pop a Sword Soul token after they make one with Mo Ye, or if you have a way to negate Grand Master, wait until they special Summon Longyuan so they cant make Baronne or Chengying