mtg starter commander decks release date TCG: Magic The Gathering Commander Starter Pack - Multicolor:

That said, it's one of those cards that's really easy to overestimate and I guess that's what happened here

Open your boosters and find out Each booster pack contains one of 121 possible card lists so there are over 14 000 possible 40-card decks

The player phrasing also helps if youre playing some kind of 2v2 format, allowing your teammate to draw cards and replace part of a dud hand

Vintage kept its restricted list, because some people wanted to play with powerful cards (and also because Type 1.5, aka legacy had started to take root, which, at the time, was just vintage with the restricted list renamed "banned list"), but in standard, you already couldn't play with all your cards, so there really wasn't any good reason to keep a restricted list

Youre not building a zombie deck here, but the typical wheel-and-deal decks get a huge boost with Nekusar at the helm