Thought-Knot Seer and Reality Smasher can deal extra damage, while Hangarback Walker and Matter Reshaper could easily want to die, particularly in response to an opposing exile effect
Unlike Modern, which allows powerful fetch lands, Pioneer explicitly bans all ten fetch lands (e.g., Bloodstained Mire, Flooded Strand, Wooded Foothills) from its inception
What's in a Strixhaven Theme Booster
Ancestral Recall was an iconic and expensive card at the time it was banned, and removing it from the card pool was intended to combat the notion that Commander is a prohibitively expensive and inaccessible format
Sometimes the themes were a bit looser Ikorias showcase frames gave creatures with the sets mutate mechanic a comic book makeover for reasons Im still not entirely sure of but they were small inclusions that gave that set a great sense of identity