We've seen the return of the Pro Tour, a Magic card sell for over 2 million dollars, big changes to many formats (as well as a few new formats), a new card type, many set releases, and more
To round out the token generators are the Instants and Sorceries
Instead, Sword of Once and Future is fairly powerful too and certainly destined to see Commander play
Where Wyleth, Soul of Steel and Akiri, Line-Slinger used to reign supreme, Eivor, Battle-Ready actually gives you a win condition built right in
For me, those represent the four best decks in the format, and I think any one of them has just as good of a shot to win as Izzet Phoenix, but I might just as well be better off taking the field
I stumbled onto an article on Channel Fireball that talked about how much fixing you needed to reliably cast spells on certain turns and with certain mana costs (C or CC or CCC, etc)