Summary New bans in MTG's Commander format caused an uproar among fans due to the unexpected removal of valuable cards like Jeweled Lotus and Mana Crypt
In fact, all the others have come from the other D&D tie-in release, Adventures in the Forgotten Realms
It's like that time your grandma, forgetting about inflation, gave you fifty cents towards a new Lego set that cost twenty-five dollars
These cards were expensive not because of demand but because the available supply was amazingly low
The Phasing of Zhalfir is such a good blue "boardwipe", especially since you can choose to protect one or two of your creatures before the third chapter goes off, or you can immediately skip to the third chapter if you really need the boardwipe to happen the turn you cast it
By contrast, the chess problem must be solved by brute force, and the number of steps this takes increases in proportion to an exponential function of the input