Time travelling is a new mechanic in Universes Beyond: Doctor Who that lets you either add or remove a time counter on your suspended cards, allowing you to cast a whole host of cards at the same time for just seven mana
8 Hylda of the Icy Crown Hylda of the Icy Crown is the centerpiece of the white-blue "tap an enemy creature" draft archetype for Wilds of Eldraine , and in Commander, Hylda does the same thing on a much larger scale
Decks that want to play counters are almost always control decks, and control decks would much prefer to gain life rather than cause opponents to lose life, so all things being equal they would have preferred to play with Absorb but there were other considerations that forced most of them down the black road instead
Starting with the most conventional of these new MTG commanders: Winter, Cynical Opportunist leads the golgari graveyard deck, Death Toll
I like this version in particular over the 2018 printing because it has the original art and card frame, which I think is far superior to newer versions
