The Vow megacycle is a more obvious if expensive example: theyre straight-up buffs for your creatures, goad effects in multiplayer, or Guard Duty in a 1v1 situation
Giving them to your opponent and making them lose the game
The Future As a price spike thats driven by Commander, usually wed expect the price of Enduring Tenacity to fall off eventually
Snow is a middling theme on EDHREC.com it has an okay 7,161 decks registered, which is more than the previous scoring Rats, but only around 37th overall, so hitting a nice new option that offers card advantage, in the popular Bant colors, will hopefully help out loads
While group hug had always been a popular strategy dating back to the origins of the format, Zedruu created a group hug deck that did less fortifying to accomplish its goals