mtg commander deck composition How to Build a Commander Build Guide - Three

Wonderfully, Alpha League rules mimic and approximate this dynamic nicely, sharply constraining rares to 3-copies per card (unless restricted or super-restricted), uncommons to 6 copies per deck, with no limit on commons

Including the set in Standard made me wonder if there were any existing hooks we could grab onto

This means that for every Alpha copy of a card printed, there were roughly three Beta copies

This is flat-out good, and if you have a single trigger you're relying on, the going rate is already ~3 for a single repetition via Spell, with this breaking parity by its second use

Lavabrink Venturer, Haktos the Unscarred, Gideon Blackblade and Stonecoil Serpent are our threats of choice here