The +1 slows down your opponent's best attacker, and the potentially huge chunk of mill with the -X ability can close out games
There are so many times where your devotion won't be sufficient to turn the Gods into creatures, so you really want to be satisfied with their abilities when you assume they may never be a creature
And we would be highly disappointed by the market if this Dragon ever sold for that price
Fewer surprise price spikes, more predictable secondary-market behaviour, and a card pool designed to be reprinted indefinitely
Finally, in terms of threats, Phlage, Titan of Fire's Fury and Ragavan, Nimble Pilferer are the most played by the raw number of copies in all the decklists I analyzed
Just five minutes after Lutri, the Spellchaser was debuted on the Magic: the Gathering Twitch stream, following the Ikoria: Lair of Behemoths preview, Sheldon Menery of the Commander Rules Committee posted this update