Just look at this ranking: Probably half of it gets countered by Mental Misstep, not to mention hand disruption and forced discard effects like Thoughtseize and Duress or creatures like Ragavan, Nimble Pilferer
You also get to play Niv-Mizzet, Parun, the smartest and smuggest Dragon
Ravos, Soultender was never especially popular, but has lost a lot of ground since the printing of Orah, Skyclave Hierophant, which built a solid foundation for the previous weaker cleric tribal deck
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Playing politics in Commander is an integral part of the game, at least when youre playing with three or more people
Part of this is indeed due to them being aggressively costed, but theres more to them than acceptable states as a fail case