There were concerns within WOTC that playing for ante might result in official tournaments legally sanctioning gambling
It asks you to understand replacement effects, timing windows, combat rules, and the difference between being destroyed, sacrificed, exiled, bounced, or put into the graveyard for having 0 toughness
It's one of the most popular creature types in MTG history as a squirrel, and it's also powerful in its own right, with baked-in mana ramp on top of token duplication that can create some absurd boardstates quickly
The idea is to have cards like Undead Augur in play when you sacrifice your creatures
Fred and Daphne team up to lead the charge through your deck or over your opponents creatures (which is an analogy well use for solving the mystery of your Commander pod), while Velma is apt at cracking Clues and acts as sort of a Clue, herself, once given enough resources