Credit: Wizards of the Coast The Gold Saucer BPhillipYork: Well if you just want to be flipping coins it's a useful way to generate flips, and it's also a mana dump, and also a way to draw presumably with token artifacts, so all in all it's a pretty flexible toolbox card, which I like
You just cast it as you have the mana available, and you can drop it earlier
The alternate commander, The Lord of Pain, pings enemies for damage whenever a player casts their first spell, which is not only an excellent tool to make your opponents kill each other, but a decent deterrent to not remove them quickly
Each player gets two packs, which they open to create their deck
The other downside is that to transform to Optimus Prime, Autobot Leader, Optimus Prime, Hero needs to die, which is not easy to do even as a sacrificial blocker in combat because of his 8 Toughness