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Unfortunately, decks with lots of removal can kill this before the first trigger (it dies to Doom Blade), but it can be the nail in the coffin against aggro decks

First, you can omit most of the other token-makers and spend that portion of the deck on control and protection for your commander, similar to the way some folks play Talrand, Sky Summoner decks

Haunting Voyage stands in as our mass reanimation spell

Its naturally weaker in 1v1 formats, as boards usually wont have 13 creatures on them, so cards like Damnation become better options

Oh, and did I mention it adds four to the devotion count as well

Many combo decks have used the Stroke as a kill card, including High Tide, Tolarian Academy, Power Artifact combo, and Aluren