In fact, it is possible to proceed without fighting it, but defeating it yields a valuable item
If youre the person who opens Tezzeret at the table, you have two choices: abandon him completely, draft normally, and know that every opponent you face will have a powerful Planeswalkeror draft a whole bunch of lockets and pray that you find Tezzeret at the right time
I know most commander writers dont like to do lists, but I would find it helpful if you did some top tens for MDTAS, maybe broken down by color, or budget options
Essence Capture is more at home in a tempo shell, where the +1/+1 counter speeds up your clock and provides modified creatures, if thats something you care about
While I only have one Charm left in my drafting cube as a result of my crusade against gold cards I have played with well over half of the Charms ever printed in cube