Other Maze's End decks could use 5-color commanders like Child of Alara to control the board with wraths until you can assemble your gates, or Garth One-Eye to consistently cast Black Lotus into a pile of ramp to get all your gates out at once
I think that Magic players are far too afraid of commitment as is, and I prefer a design that tempers the power of colorless options so as not to expressly reward players who make safe decisions
Then again, you might be running a spell slinger deck, with lots of cantrips like Stella Lee, Wild Card, where you want to filter through your deck, draw cards, and stop people from getting there before you combo off
Satoru Umezawa Updates When we first saw Satoru Umezawa, I rushed to brew a deck
Now, thats not to say you cant still try and come up with your own special Standard sauce
In all situations, this is a playable spell