Its upkeep trigger forces life loss and card selection regardless of removal, which makes it one of the best zombie commanders in MTG for inevitability-focused strategies
Hermit Druid taps for a Green to reveal cards from your library until you show a basic, and then you dump all of those cards into the 'yard and the land goes into your hand
Tazri, Beacon of Unity In Oath of the Gatewatch , General Tazri was one of the strongest supporters of the ally creature type
Angelo DArgenio has written two articles detailing the AI that was able to learn how to generate perfectly reasonable Magic cards its a fascinating insight into how human creativity could potentially be replaced by AI in the future
With cards like Firjas Retribution, we can start playing a mix of both proactive and reactive cards
The Nivs are especially centric to this category, where they actually are on flavor for either representing the guilds or some Izzet mechanic that was featured, Niv being the prior leader of the guild