The wording just feels clunky
His two snakes as beatifully depicted in the two Striking Illusionist cards could be something like Flotsam & Jetsam too
Dimir Murktide (9.1% of the Winner's Metagame) 4 Orcish Bowmasters 4 Psychic Frog 4 Counterspell 4 Fatal Push 4 Polluted Delta 4 Thoughtseize 3 Murktide Regent 3 Force of Negation 3 Preordain 2 Subtlety 2 Sink into Stupor 2 Spell Snare 2 Undercity Sewers 2 Watery Grave 2 Tamiyo, Inquisitive Student 2 Dismember 2 Island 2 Kaito, Bane of Nightmares 2 Darkslick Shores 2 Flooded Strand 1 Swamp 1 Misty Rainforest 1 Marsh Flats 1 Scalding Tarn 1 Sauron's Ransom 4 Consign to Memory 2 Harbinger of the Seas 2 Stern Scolding 2 Nihil Spellbomb 1 Jace, the Mind Sculptor 1 Engineered Explosives 1 Subtlety 1 Mystical Dispute 1 The Meathook Massacre Dimir Murktide stands as the format's premier interactive midrange deck, using a mix of countermagic, discard, and removal to dismantle opposing plans
Presumably, the answer wont come until a later Lorcana expansion, but until then, there are plenty of clues scattered throughout the cards for collectors to piece things together themselves
The ticket is exciting until the moment he learns that it's not a winner
Authors note: Commander should be about fun, rather than about whether you have expensive cards