Back-Half Value One thing that aftermath in general has going for it is that our current Standard has a ton of discard outlets and Amonkhet itself has a discard theme, so it's possible that Wizards' intentions for these cards isn't so much for players to cast them from their hands but instead to discard them for value and then flash them back
If you cast it this way, you pay the mayhem cost rather than the mana cost
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The core combo of Cauldron Familiar, Witch's Oven, and the powerful finisher of Korvold, Fae-Cursed King all come from Eldraine
Maybe its the weird deckbuilding gremlin in me, but I will focus on commanders and discover main-set cards as I go via Scryfall advanced searches
Getting to play Commune with Dinosaurs is nice, but this is mostly just a pile of big monsters