While it certainly wasnt beating the unplayable charges in Standard, The Deck of Many Things is much more viable in Commander, where it can serve as a late-game value engine
This is a product aimed at casual players, players who just want to play Magic casually and the way they approach this game is very different than enfranchised players
This was not very intuitive and made first strikers a bit too strong, so we changed it for the next playtest." "The other most commonly used advancement condition was the casting of a card with skirmish
That casting cost is pretty brutal as well, so be prepared for that if you aren't playing Urborg, Tomb of Yawgmoth
Shadowspear Shadowspears low casting cost, reasonable equip cost, and the plethora of boons it offers an equipped creature hearkens back to Basilisk Collar, a card that saw years of tournament and Commander play after its release in Worldwake