If a card says loses all abilities (like Darksteel Mutation or Sudden Spoiling), that permanent still keeps any +1/+1 counters, loyalty counters, shield counters, or other counters already on it
You want even, natural light on a plain, dark, non-reflective background and your own photos, and you definitely shouldnt use a stock image pulled from Google
Buying yourself two more copies is pretty cheap and adds more consistency
2 graveyard recursion higher budgets I recommend more tutors 2 flexible tutors
But if you change this with something like Opalescence (or are using the Faceless One), then your background commander would be affected and could be targeted by anything that says commander creature. Most of the cards that refer to commander creatures instead of just commanders are background cards themselves