While Dread Return looks like a four-mana reanimation spell, the card's real power is its flashback ability, which allows you to cast it from your graveyard for free by sacrificing three creatures
While the prices of many of the cards in Commander 2017 will decline over the next few weeks and months, since the EV is currently higher than MSRP, one thing we've learned over the years is that popular casual cards (including high-end Commander staples) will decline less in price and rebound faster
In any deck that makes opponents dump cards, it becomes a snowballing threat thats impossible to ignore once it starts attacking
You can even keep paying the three mana for the final stage, continuing to put +1/+1 counters on it and drawing cards
The card was definitely printed with card Lucky Dime in mind, a seven-cost item that can act as a doubler for your Tamatoas in play
At the beginning of combat on your turn, if you control five or more Deserts, create that many 1/1 red, green, and white Sand Warrior creature tokens