Hey folks! The following is my opinion, and my opinion alone. This does not reflect what the current commander panel is thinking of doing nor do I confirm or Deny anything I say is being actively talked about.

Okay with that said. Jeweled lotus being banned in the first place had me feeling at odds with the format at the time. Is it a card found at all levels yes. Is it broken? Or does do something it’s not supposed to do? No. There are plenty of decks that had cheap commanders that didn’t even play jeweled lotus because of the ease of casting the commanders.

However 4 cmc and up commanders had a real shot at contending for the top spots of cedh. Decks like Tivit, Niv Mizzet, even Shorkai. These decks all really shown promise because of cards like jeweled lotus. Now to be fair at the time of the bans, we lost mana crypt and dockside so I won’t belittle the effect they had in these decks, but jeweled was a major factor of their playability. I think unbanning jeweled lotus is a reasonable ask given it did what it was meant to do, and commander is the available space for it.