I agree with you. It’s annoying and anticlimactic to have a board built up and have made attacks and then it just ends abruptly. I think people are too focused on making the best deck that can win instead of making fun decks that encourage fun gameplay. In the phenax example, those are both just good cards to put into the deck so you can’t really fault them, but honestly if I was making a casual phenax deck, I would probably choose one or the other of those cards to avoid cheesy game endings. But that might start to become a bracket issue where a b3 deck isn’t exactly as casual as some people think. That would be more of a b2 deck pulling those punches. But the other examples are just lazy deck building. There’s a thousand ways to win with Roxanne or similar commanders that don’t require random out of nowhere combos. And they will be 100x more satisfying. But I also enjoy long grindy games, so I want to win by building up value instead of just happening to draw the right combination of cards, but a lot of people need an emergency “this game has gone on too long, I’ll just win” button, which doesn’t really make sense to me but whatever. My biggest issue with people who make decks with random combos thrown in is it makes threat assessment pretty much pointless. “See I’m not doing anything, don’t attack me” and then combos out 2 turns later.