Magic: The Gathering Zendikar Rising is a return to the adventurous inspirations of the first set that featured it, which contained treasures in select booster packs - making that feeling more broadly accessible will help the return to Zendikar more accessible to a greater number of players
With Innistrad: Midnight Hunt coming out in a couple of weeks, and then Crimson Vow coming out in a couple of months, we were expecting to see a Commander deck for the tribe, to be honest, but thats not happening
Blocking creatures commanded by this card is already a losing proposition, and few commanders give you a better incentive to play with -1/-1 counters or toughness-based removal like Last Gasp
What's been missing for a too long
To determine the total cost of a spell, start with the mana cost or alternative cost you're paying (such as a flashback cost), add any cost increases (such as kicker costs), then apply any cost reductions (such as that of Lyse Hext's second ability)
