Vise has returned with higher casting costs, which cripples the card since you can't hit their initial seven card hand, and the wake of the restriction has served as a cautionary tale ever since
It may not have the outside star power of the Lotus, but Ancestral puts the Power in Power Nine just as much
I have to imagine that there will be a self mill engine printed in Zendikar Rising, so maybe Drowned Secrets will not be missed so much, but I have had a lot of fun playing with it and employing both strategies even if neither one was particularly competitive
However, the haste keyword avoids this
Two mana lords for example are great, they are some of the best tribal cards on offer but they are not having any impact on the drafting cube
Saw in Half, Wedding Ring, and Tombstone Stairwell Geralf, the Fleshwright: still not a good mono-U zombie commander but seems real good in the 99 Lilah, Undefeated Slickshot: so basically a multicolor Taigam, Ojutai Master/Ojer Pakpatiq, Deepest Epoch Flip