Dihada, Binder of Wills

Dihada, Binder of Wills by itself is a very peculiar card in our format: it works mostly as an enabler, doing quite little by itself. However, its role as an enabler is very powerful, especially since it indeed enables not one, but two different gameplans. At first, it acts as a good way to play a classic Reanimate-like plan, as it allows putting powerful but expensive creatures in the graveyard. But also, the mana it gives allows naturally casting that same creature even without a Reanimate-like effect.

Historically, reanimation decks have always been weak when not getting access to such reanimation effects in a game. But Dihada, Binder of Wills effectively solves this problem by giving tons of mana to cast game breakers. In short, it tends to be more of a hybrid reanimating and ramp deck than a proper combo deck, making most of the usual solutions against reanimator pointless (i.e. graveyard hate, hand disruption, etc.). Last, but not the least, the deck makes full use of Underworld Breach, giving it one more game plan with minimal drawback.

For this reason, Dihada, Binder of Wills tends to have very few bad matchups, having an edge against aggressive, midrange, and control decks, while being by far one of the best combo decks available.

Immune to usual hate cards, with very few predators, and having too many gameplans in a single deck, we chose to ban Dihada, Binder of Wills as a commander.