Getting a Genie into play at the right time to fully lock down your opponent's board , and following up with more characters that force the opponent's characters to exert can stop them from ever interacting with your side of the board again
And if they dont what then? Illustrated by Rebecca Guay Standard Not Legal Alchemy Not Legal Pioneer Not Legal Historic Not Legal Modern Not Legal Brawl Not Legal Legacy Legal Comp
Cycling has now been upgraded to deciduous status, meaning it can be used sparingly in any set where it's needed, and the set doesn't need an overarching cycling theme for the mechanic to appear there
Therefore, they dropped the format association and simply renamed the format Brawl, keeping Standard Brawl as its own distinct offshoot
Of course, there are effects that let you just do this permanently, but not so much in a red and blue commander
You can technically get this done cheaper with Vito, Thorn of the Dusk Rose in place of Sanguine Bond