A commander like last week's Urabrask, Heretic Praetor or today's mono-White Zoologist can be a real challenge because you aren't being led by the hand down an obvious build path
Also sadly, as I might have mentioned, elves don't really midrange currently
Theres a huge number of cards that spread -1/-1 counters and proliferate support, so youll be making lots of snakes in no time with Hapatra around
The Iono SAR from Clay Burst [SV2D], for example, had an initial price of over 200,000 JPY (~US$1,495 at the time)
Theyre typically printed in sets like Shadows Over Innistrad with a strong theme of transforming cards
Lobelia, Defender of Bag End Unless the second mode is going to save our life, I can only imagine choosing the first one three times