Pulsemage Advocate gets better when youre playing against decks that put a lot of their own cards into the graveyard, anyway, like self-mill or lands-based decks, or when you have wheel effects in your deck
It can slow your opponent down simply by existing, since they'll need to dedicate resources to removing it, which usually means opening their characters up to be Challenged
We only print hex/paw-style mana icons on our decks
Mill is the ultimate strategy for this commander
In Premodern, however, control tends to fall into four different categories: Classic Control, UW Standstill Lock Control, Stasis / Spirit of Resistance Creature-based Control, The Solution Non-UW Control, BUG / Domain UW Control Blue and white are the best colors to start with when building a control shell