The generic mana cost of artifacts was always an obvious combination with cost-reduction mechanics, and there have been decks aiming to flood the board with artifacts since the 1990s
You'll also notice that a lot of these follow the "damage every opponent" plan, or sometimes just "damage every player"
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
Your cards go into a card pool When you draft
And just by looking at the pretested decks alone last week, plus the first three days that the set rolled out, it seems that MTG Standard has changed completely
In the Final Fantasy series, shares u/Enlog, these cactus monsters have always been called Sabotender' in Japanese: Saboten' means Cactus' in Japanese, plus Pretender'