The criteria for our ranking of the sets are pretty basic: we're considering how good the cards in each set are from both a competitive standpoint (i.e
Last but not least, Commander might be all about your leader, but RPGs are often about your party as a whole, and WOTC wont leave the supporting casts of these games hanging
You can cast them for their normal cost, or you can warp heavy hitters like Blightsteel Colossus
Even with the downside, the benefit you get from information and making them discard a key spell is worth the life loss, and control/combo decks hate to see a turn-1 Thoughtseize
I talked about where the Commander product line had been (we'd done three-color wedge decks, three-color shard decks, monocolor decks, and enemy color decks) and where I imagined it would go (we're going to REDACTED, REDACTED, and perhaps even REDACTED)
I've run a pretty good Purphoros deck and currently run a Zada, Hedron Grinder and a Grenzo, Havoc Raiser deck