mtg is legendary a card type What the Rule? Card Types in Graveyard? :

Dark Ascension TypeCreature Wolf Collector Number141 Rarityuncommon ArtistTerese Nielsen Intimidate (This creature can't be blocked except by artifact creatures and/or creatures that share a color with it.) Each other creature you control that's a Wolf or a Werewolf gets +1/+1

Voting is a mechanic that is perfect for social multiplayer formats like Commander and helps to set Elven Council apart from more aggressive Tales of Middle Earth decks like The Hosts of Mordor

The downside is that it does very little to affect the board

What's wrong with going off first and big

Still, accepting that players like them, they do make your deck slightly more efficient (the focus here being on slightly )