What is the reason for putting this comma in?

> **異変と** 、その影に潜む陰謀を、彼はまだ知らない。

As I understand it, the sentence means that he doesn't (yet) know about either
the 異変 or the 陰謀. Is this comma here meant to make the reader parse the
sentence in a certain way?
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What is the purpose of the comma after the と in 異変と、その影に潜む陰謀を、彼はまだ知らない。
While the logical meaning is the same with or without the comma, without it,
the reader may feel like he doesn't know **one** thing:

> [ 異変とその影に潜む陰謀 ] を、彼はまだ知らない。

With the comma, it is much clearer that 彼 doesn't know **two** things:

> [ 異変 ] と、 [ その影に潜む陰謀 ] を、彼はまだ知らない。

It just emphasizes the 異変 more, and I think the pause matches the way a
tasteful narrator would read the sentence out loud. I'd say the difference is
similar to these two sentences:

  1. He has yet to discover the anomaly, and the conspiracy behind it.
  2. He has yet to discover the anomaly and the conspiracy behind it.
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