Even if the caster has a weak board, Ruinous Ultimatum is still worth casting if they can't wait for another, cheaper board wipe
ones like reputation are passive
But that also depends on your collecting goal, the potential you see in them and how they came out of the booster packs
Commander Deck includes 1 ready-to-play Blue-White-Red deck of 100 Magic cards (2 Traditional Foil Legendary cards, 98 nonfoil cards), a Collector Booster Sample Pack (contains 2 Traditional Foil or nonfoil special treatment cards, with 1 Extended-Art card of rarity Rare or higher and 1 alt-art, alt-frame card of rarity Uncommon or higher), 1 foil-etched Display Commander (a thick cardstock copy of the commander card with foil etched into the cards border and art), 10 double-sided tokens, 1 deck box (can hold 100 sleeved cards), 1 Life Wheel, 1 strategy insert, and 1 reference card
Since, I did not have much time and the event ended in a few hours my gut reaction was to just take it as a loss and be out the $25