Whether you're trying to beat down in Timeless or trying to farm easy wins in Brawl, it's very hard for players to keep up with the raw power of a transformed Ajani, Nacatl Avenger
I was going to do, and still might, a comparison of Counterspell and Boomerang to Vindicate so as to show that either of the blue spells are quite substantially better in the right situation but pay for it by being that much more context dependant
Artificer's Intuition has great utility in decks that trade artifacts in play with artifacts in the bin: it lets you dump a Blightsteel Colossus or Portal to Phyrexia into your graveyard, while tutoring up a cheap artefact to play out
That said, Id prefer a commander with more than a single ETB effect, especially if that effect wont be too impactful until later in the game
Last week, WotC unveiled a brand new Magic Arena format called Alchemy