Quickly flooding the battlefield with little 1/1 green guys is a very effective strategy
It protects some of your creatures from the inevitable sweepers, like Wrath of God, which come along frequently in Commander games
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The Shadow Lord Gix, Yawgmoth Praetor was a pretty strong mythic in The Brothers War, and it should play out fairly similar here
Hideaway, devotion, and even meld make an appearance as one-off mechanics
This won't be too much of an issue if you're playing non-rotating formats like Standard, but fans of Modern or Commander will be up to their knees in MTG elves cards