Creatures that have an abilities that require you to sacrifice a creature are what are considered the Aristocrats
While we've had dominant decks and cards like Collected Company, Siege Rhino, Pack Rat, and Rally the Ancestors, those formats didn't see huge drops in attendance, and for the most part, by the time the outcry got loud, the problem card was already close to rotation (if you look at Rally and Bant Company, their most dominant times were in the two or three months before they rotated from the format)
If you choose not to cast the exiled card, it remains in exile
Instead, it appears that more players are buying playsets of the classic border version to use in Premodern , which has been in the conversation among entrenched Magic players this year after it was added to MTG Online in December 2025
It was Planeshift , though, and the story was coming to an end