As a 5-color commander, Azlask's color identity lets you include every single one of the other experience counter cards, and its generally useful activated ability synergizes well with all those extra ways to generate counters
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Now the card has almost quintupled in value over a month due to its synergy with Ashling, the Limitless, the face commander of the Dance of the Elements Commander precon
While the flavor is nice, there are simply better Equipment to search for with Cloud, Midgar Mercenary, even with Clouds trigger-doubling ability
You can still cast it off of many tricks like Panoptic Mirror (banned in Commander), or cascade
