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If you spend this mana to cast your commander, it enters with a number of additional +1/+1 counters on it equal to the number of times it's been cast from the command zone this game
On my initial reading, I was getting ready to dismiss it towards a budget Mindslaver in a steal cards archetype
Fortunately, during my stay in that run-down building, I managed to make a small group of friends who all happened to be into Magic: The Gathering
Remember: back in 2015, cards like Force of Negation, Force of Vigor, Assassin's Trophy, Fatal Push, Karn, the Great Creator, Counterspell, and friends didn't exist (or weren't legal in Modern), and decks were much, much slower and fairer, giving Birthing Pod a leg up on the metagame thanks to the consistency it offered
In Standard, the biggest issue for Infernal Reckoning is that everything it exiles also happens to die to Fatal Push, which means, at least for the time being, Infernal Reckoning is more like copies 5+ of Fatal Push rather than a card you'll build your deck around