Struggle // Survive

In Commander, Struggle // Survive earns its slot primarily in green decks that make large creatures or animated lands, where the fight-style removal hits hard enough to trade up. The graveyard shuffle on Survive is a real upside in a format where mill and self-mill are common, protecting your library from decking or resetting a key piece. In Modern and Legacy, the card sees virtually no play — instant-speed fight effects exist at lower mana cost, and the sorcery speed on both halves is a hard ceiling in those formats. Pioneer is similarly uninterested; the competition for four-mana green spells is steep and Struggle // Survive doesn't clear the bar outside narrow synergy contexts.