In addition to the same losing conditions that exist in a normal game of Magic , each player starts the game with 40 life points instead of 20, and a player may lose if they are dealt 21 or more total points of combat damage from a single Commander throughout the game
You get to cheat some big permanents into play and it has a requirement that isnt that hard to get active
Apparently he has had an errata making him a merfolk in addition to his types which increases his usefulness in fish style archetypes although most of those cards reside in the B cube
Honestly I'd have expected more equipment but it's still a fine baseline
It included 83 silver-bordered cards, five black-bordered full-art basic lands, and six black-bordered tokens
This was widely seen as a mistake, even by MTG's Head Designer Mark Rosewater, and since then WotC has been much more careful when printing partner commanders, instead focusing lately on cards that can only be partners with one other specific creature