Both Oko, Thief of Crowns and Once Upon a Time ended up getting banned in multiple formats and Mystic Sanctuary even got banned in Pauper
Out of a set of roughly 300 cards, the inclusion of Banding as a mechanic only makes sense if the designers thought that some players would be able to play many banding creatures out of those two commons
First, noncreature spells is a pretty broad theme, so I have a lot of flexibility and options when it comes to choosing and building the modules
She's a pretty good example of the problems the set had
The 26 excess damage cards that you can play in Commander are: Aegar, the Freezing Flame Bottle-Cap Blast Contest of Claws Cramped Vents Fall of Cair Andros Flame Spill Gandalf's Sanction Goblin Negotiation Hell to Pay Lacerate Flesh Maarika, Brutal Gladiator Magmatic Galleon Megatron, Tyrant / Megatron, Destructive Force Nahiri's Warcrafting Overclocked Electromancer Pigment Storm Ram Through Ravenous Tyrannosaurus Rith, Liberated Primeval Toralf, God of Fury / Toralf's Hammer Torch the Witness Unleash the Inferno Vikya, Scorching Stalwart Windswift Slice The five digital-only Alchemy cards are: Best Excess Damage Cards Ram Through Ram Through, originally from Ikoria , was one of the first excess damage cards printed, and is the most popular in casual Commander decks