The range of creatures they care about casts such a wide net that you have a ton of options for building around this commander
Coin flip cards are frequently controversial and not everyone agrees on their relative merits, but most of whats going on with Ral Zarek has nothing to do with coin flips and even the coin flip ability involves flipping five coins which actually smooths out the variance
Tataru Taru is also kind of interesting as a good ol' hatebear, like Lotho, because if there's anything EDH players like doing, it's drawing a bunch of cards
Any cards not cast this way remain exiled for the rest of the game
Artists will get a brief for example, a card featuring Ludwig von Drake of Wonderful World of Color and DuckTales , and hes at a party bailed up in a corner, and hes talking your ear off. Then, it will be up to the artist to interpret this text, and develop an array of options
Its a mechanic that turns on once a card enables it and can be taken by dealing combat damage to the player with initiative, much like monarch