Take many of the prior format's most powerful and proactive cards, splash in some removal and planeswalkers, have the ability to be aggressive or go long, and put it all together with a super clean mana base that never stumbles (not a thing most new decks can say), and you've got a deck that looks to be able to tackle anything
But, the current meta took shape in April 2022, so it includes only those Ex cards available in the Scarlet and Violet sets released at this time
In fact, those two cards chain together superbly: casting a Rampant Growth on turn two allows you to cast Explosive Vegetation on turn three and start turn four with seven lands in play
That creature's controller creates a 4/3 blue Salamander Warrior creature token." [Amphin Mutineer] is able to take out one of your opponent's biggest creatures and leave them behind with what in Commander is a fairly innocuous 4/3 body (as it's more the creature's abilities than their power and toughness that matters), said Mines, who considered the card significantly more powerful than Gor Muldrak, Amphinologist