There is a sentence that I kinda came up with and that I always repeat which is: "A card is only as good as the context it lives in." The context can refer to having cards that enable a combo (like the Yveltal/Lugia situation) or because, plainly put, there is nothing else better
Can You Target a Spell That Cant Be Countered
Providing a ton of mana ramp in a colour that doesn't typically get much, this card can put you way ahead of the peloton.
Marcy: It would be really interesting to see a Rat deck that goes wide and over, but there is a slight little trigger on this card that makes some of that less fun: this turn, which is fair, as the effect could be too strong otherwise
The Undertaker allows me to deliver some really strong games while shoring up a glaring weakness in my Commander strategy suite
In my headcanon, Odric, Lunarch Marshal serves a similar unyielding protagonist role, this white commander rallying his troops to survive against all odds