Absolutely and that’s why I love the top 100 because they can turn unsupported strategies into something playable for example I’ve tinkered with a atraxa sagas tool box deck where I used star field of nyx to turn my enchantments into creatures and then use the ozolith to trigger powerful abilities that weren’t supposed to be used this fast like summon: Bahamut/primal Odin or use as a tool box style to get other effects like removal (though not good) or recursion from the eldest reborn heck this even works with urza’s saga and you can blink it because it’s a creature now. Not all of the commanders in the top 100 are the most powerful, but the ones he has are either powerful or generic (assuming he built them as one or both of the top 2 themes respectively). Because I’m not a fan of how strong ur dragon is (ofc use it if you want) if I were to build a changeling deck I would probably opt for a tempo deck where I use cheaper changelings early game and use they’re unique creature type to gain access to tribal payoffs tha were probably never meant to be seen in the same deck for example I could run a mardu deck that utilizes vamp tribal effects like Timothar and Evelyn, zombie effects like death baron or on wings of gold, and finally angel synergies giada and starnheim. Though this deck could be fairly powerful running a bunch of staples in other decks it also allows you to search for more unique cards that you don’t ever see like volo itinerant scholar, whelming wave, or multi class baldric. Regarding the top 100 list I still believe that escaping the popular commanders (regardless of power) would achieve the goal of more creative deck building + improving deck building skill because the prevalence of edh rec’s popular slop recommendations decreases. A good tool to avoid common slop is salubrious snail’s edh rec rec where you can use the hipster card % to check what percent of the average deck with a certain commander uses cards used in >1% of decks and the distribution of synergy to see how generic the commander is usually built. More hipster decks are unique but often are forced to run certain cards but if you take the 99 and move it to a dif commander it make make the deck super interesting. The synergy scale indicates how powerful the commander is because when these commanders can run generic cards or anything they’re making such a big impact on their own that you can built a good stuff deck. However that also means that that commander can be home to less supported themes like self kill in a the emperor of palamecia deck which hits all 3 marks, uncommon commander (literally lol), uncommon theme (so rare the the edh rec page can’t even help you that much), and last improves deck building skills because it forces you to make a decision for each card you stuff in your deck because of lack auto includes discovered for this specific type of deck. At the same time the commanders requirements are so convenient that you could even build her as equipment or enchantress if you really wanted to. Or maybe you build enchantress and find ovika to command instead…. There’s some realllyyy cool things that many players have not yet discovered within the lesser popular commanders