I can't remember a single player from the Scepter's glory days that played it without being both a good player and a good deck designer
In the larger world of commander, this also means easier activations on land like Cabal Stronghold, Kessig Wolf Run, Rogues Passage, Gavony Township and the Kamigawa Neon Dynasty channel lands like Boseiju, Who Endures on top of their reductions already, just to name a few
(The copy becomes a token.) A resolving copy of a permanent spell becomes a token, so the token isn't "created." Effects that care about a token being created won't interact with a token that enters the battlefield from Mendicant Core's last ability
The artists have truly settled into their groove (six sets in, you'd hope so!) and there's a fab unifying swashbuckling aesthetic going on
The Nyx basics are simple yet gorgeous, especially in foil
Black and white also both excel at recursion, so you can rebuy cheap utility enchantments like Hopeless Nightmare to get multiple triggers in the late game