Stella Lee, Wild Card is a wonderful commander, giving you incentives to cast multiple spells a turn, and the turn you go Opt into Ponder into a third copied spell feels very powerful
I cant think of a card I hate seeing more than Academy Manufactor, and its not uncommon for decks to generate serious advantage in the midgame by leveraging tokens
One problem with making multicolor cards is that most enablers that let you play two-color decks also help you play three-color decks, so whenever we make a two-color format, it's tricky to keep it from spreading to more colors
SAW IT COMING Speaking of mana efficiency, 2021 and Kaldheim may have given us the best answer yet to What would make a 1UU counterspell feel exciting? After 15 years of Cancel, few would have expected it sometimes costs 3U instead to be the ideal solution
Each of these has perks that scale fairly well in the right build
I guess Wizards of the Coast finally printed an exciting wall by making it an eight mana 0/30 creature that grants all your other permanents indestructible