While black specializes in trading life for cards, blue dominates the stack with countermagic and traditional draw spells
A decks ranking can be subjective because, for example, if you prefer to rely on creatures more than spells, then you will favor one deck over another
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Its a pure board presence commander that dumps stats on the table, but thats very on-brand for the color pair
Vintage kept its restricted list, because some people wanted to play with powerful cards (and also because Type 1.5, aka legacy had started to take root, which, at the time, was just vintage with the restricted list renamed "banned list"), but in standard, you already couldn't play with all your cards, so there really wasn't any good reason to keep a restricted list