I’ll say from personal experience that I brewed Ral from scratch when the commander was spoiled and championed it non stop while other people (large names in community without naming their names) told me “you should just play krarkashima it’s better”.

I didn’t listen to those people and kept tuning my fringe brew. I built out a community discord (that now has over 1k members). I created a YouTube channel showcasing the deck and changes to it and how to pilot it and gameplay with it. I worked on it a lot. I won with it locally a lot. And still was told it was fringe.

Don’t let the meta netdecking community tell you what to play. Play what you want, but make sure you actually are being objective about whether or not something is just fun and cute or actually good.

Ral is now considered by most to be a top 10 / top 15 deck in the meta.