Cycling (then called sliding) was created by Richard Garfield during Tempest design
BPhillipYork: So his deal damage trigger is definitely a game ender
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The Gods ability to head back really works well in these formats and metagames, which is precisely the sort of metagame you typically see in multiplayer generally, and Commander specifically
while it put up a handful of low-level results over the next couple of years (winning a few daily events on Magic Online and posting a couple of PTQ Top 8s), it never put up a marquee finish, and even the low-level results were few and far between (I count a total of 18 low-level finishes between 2012 and the beginning of 2015)
While a lot of people will play Cat decks, until we get another few Cat sets in Magic , it's hard to imagine that Cat tribal will have the staying power of Dragons, Vampires, or Wizards as far as Commander is concerned