It also has a Retreat Cost of one, making it fairly easy to recall once it has served its purpose
Do you feed the fish? is a question as old as Commander, and because of this infamy, many times the Mystic Remora player will sit back and watch as nothing happens for several turns until, eventually, the cumulative upkeep cost becomes too exhaustive, the Mystic Remora is sacrificed, and suddenly the game begins in earnest
Every opponent will want to make it their top priority to take it out though
Introduced in 2008, mythic rares appear roughly once every eight packs
Mana income from permanents in play is very reliable and can be accelerated quite easily in Commander, but it is still ultimately capped by how many untap steps you see
When the RowEgg/Vileplume deck did well I definitely had second thoughts on whether to follow through and play the deck I had been practicing for months after the hardest possible counter dominated an unsuspecting metagame the week prior