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Ace from 500 Years in the Future [OP-07], and Yamato from Kingdoms of Intrigue [OP-04] set things up by allowing the player to get high-cost Character cards ready

It's rare to see a deck without equipment somewhere, and equipment as a theme is the third most played theme in Commander according to EDHREC.com

I ended up using the flavor text to reinforce that the Surgeon Commander liked "creative templating." The name came about because I realized that since this was a Commander-focused card and we were already going to make a joke about templating for Commander, we could pick a name that played into the joke

even if you do have to wait for it