Innocent Bystander

In Commander, Innocent Bystander rewards you for sitting across from control and combo players who burn through noncreature spells — every counterspell, draw spell, or tutor an opponent casts hands you a free body. Outside of dedicated token or lifegain strategies that can capitalize on the accumulating Sheep, it rarely justifies a slot over cards that generate value on your own terms. In competitive 60-card formats like Modern and Pioneer, a 1/1 for one that requires opponents to cooperate is simply too slow and too conditional to matter. Pauper is its most plausible competitive home, where common-slot token generators get real consideration, but even there Innocent Bystander competes against more proactive one-drops.