Still, we've seen decks make good use of The Mightstone and Weakstone, and Invasion of Ravnica is even more flexible, exiling things like Wedding Announcement, Fable of the Mirror-Breaker, and The Eternal Wanderer along with exiling most creatures
Now, cEDH is a singleton format, so decks will fill themselves with all sorts of slightly-worse effects in the hopes of reaching a critical mass of multicolored dorks (Ignoble and Noble HierarchNoble Hierarch, for example), but really all this does is prove the central point: Birds of Paradise is a stellar card
Because once that first Island hits the table, everyone else is going to make assumptions anyway.
Castle Locthwain What makes [c]Castle Locthwain[/c] so good is that its a land card, so you dont have to worry about it clogging your hand when you have more pressing matters to attend to in a game
Dreamtide Whale Thats a massive 3-drop
As you might have seen with Grenzo and Rusko, the best Alchemy commanders either create things for free or cast spells for free