There are stellar commanders like D&Ds Prosper, Tome-Bound and Faldorn, Dread Wolf Herald plus plenty of payoffs in Ultimate Magic: Meteor, Delayed Blast Fireball, Quintorius Kand, Passionate Archaeologist, and Nalfeshnee
Todays planeswalker would probably scoff at all these calculations and tell us to go outside
Szat himself is a character introduced in Fallen Empires' tie-in fiction -- and I do find it really nice that the cards do try their best to represent its lore
Theyre fun to build and fun to play, and Wizards of the Coast (WotC) has created a ton of support for typal decks
While it doesn't need to be this exact structure, you certainly want a healthy land supply to start and creatures you can play on turn one
This is too much mana to pay for too little effect