Just some dork you can pump a load of mana into
Your boundaries are established right away, and they are pretty spacious
I want commanders that have four different mana pips printed on them, and luckily, we just got seven more with Marvel Super Heroes
Brawl and Eternal Brawl decks have a confined card pool, but they still have some choices on curve and support spells and style of win, usually with about two or three directions for each choice
A big part of the problem was that Modern typically had some kind of deck that was running a very particular planeswalker, and that card was a part of a whole suite of cards that was a problem
Control players were comfortable tapping out for these because almost nothing could kill an untapped Ojutai, and if the opponent wanted to spend their turn killing The Scarab God, down hed come again the following turn