Yeah Rograkh is also basically the number 1 deck in the format. The two ones that abuse it to hell are the ones that use cast for free with communander / sacrifice creature as cost (often paired with silas wrenn foe colors) and ardenn, equipping for free. Stastically the former also has highest chance of winning by t2-3.

Rograkh as commander should get banned if judged sheerly from win percentage metric. It's common practice in most card games,WOTC has promised to take a harder stance recently. That metric may not translate perfectly to commander but it's a step. Alt commander Formats like conquest already banned it.

I do not believe WOTC had any say in handover. Even if they did, the new judge committee maintains much of the same the same hands off, keep playing casual, and be social component of the old committee. And unless they're directly on the drawing board, I don't think it will change much.

Put a different way, WOTC has no intention of ever having commander ever be truly competitive, as that would alienate a significant portion of their card design and base. The same staples see so much competitive play that making commander competitive would mean they would need to reprint those or artificially power creep the format like it did with Modern Horizons.

I'm cautious with predictions. Mystery Booster 2 reprinted so many commander cards. Perhaps they could hit egregious cards in cEDH. Thassa's Oracle and Demonic Consultation. But those were just reprinted. Unfortunate timing with the committee adjustment. Drannith Magistrate,Rograkh, The One Ring, and Rhystic Study have been much complained of cards. Ikoria power crept the game, and it could happen again.

It's in all a very unfortunate accident due in large part to having such a large base of players. But I don't foresee the committee changing the game or the format much.

I see scrap crawler replacing sheoldred once that rotates out.

I'm just surprised no one mentioned before but it seems to be able to take inspiration from Narset, Parter of Veils decks.

Formerly they used Dark Deal and Day's Undoing

Decks with white could also Flash in the former with Teferi, Time Raveler. It was a very annoying control deck.

Really good write up! I never knew a lot of the references. I feel ashamed that I never realized one of my favorite older sets, Homelands, was a dracula reference because of how well it was done.

I also agree with your opinion of how Wizards has lost or abandonned the horror that made the story so intricate in the past. I would go even further and argue the game has slowly abandonning its pg13 rating. Duskmourn being so campy and horror flick reference heavy was my nail in the coffin. It's a shame, the old horror and its mystique and complexity really drew me in.

This deck is complete bs to play against lol. There are so many cards to make your opponents sacrifice creatures.

Lord_Olga Dändän is a shared format judge tower brain teaser like deck. You share a library and gy, but have seperate hands. Because of shared knowledge, you try to get the namesake dandan to defeat your opponent. How you get there varies with each deck.

This deck is the ultimate blue... Seems like a lot if disruption and solitair. I agree that Predict but i feel like there's too many, like telling time.

Mind bend is really funny in this format.