If youve played a deck that features a lot of characters then song cards will always do well, as having a couple of exerted characters open to enemy attack, but still having a flush inkwell because the songs were played without cost is a strong place to be
Of course, there's evidence to back that claim
[52] Jan velch, in the academic journal Analog Game Studies , wrote that "the popular Commander format has been receiving yearly expansions since 2011 when the first official Commander pre-constructed decks were released
If you hang around the counterfeit card subreddit, you'll find people asking for fake Aura Shardsa $15 card that isn't on the Reserved List and was already reprinted once in a Commander set
Dawn's Truce looks slightly worse because you need to gift somebody a card for the protection, but in a political format like Commander, a gift is just the path to friendship