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Outside of perhaps the alternate commander Sophia, Dogged Detective, you can play with Deep Clue Sea as-is and be able to hold your own against many other decks

You can just imagine scooping it up and putting it in your pocket

There's also always the risk that one of their creatures will be the wrong color, or it will fly, or something similar will go wrong, and the creatures that can't attack are still around to prevent you from winning the game in the meantime

As opposed to a more typical prison deck, pillowfort cards wont interfere with opponents directly, so its easy to misjudge the seriousness of the threat until suddenly interaction becomes impossible