In fact, I would say this entire deck was a sleeper hit, even if Anje and another commander Krrik, Son of Yawgmoth were pretty well-identified during preview season
// Black Chocobo Creature Bird 2/2 When this permanent transforms into Black Chocobo, search your library for a land card, put it onto the battlefield tapped, then shuffle
Instead, if Rally the Ancestors or Collected Company decks do end up being too good, I expect those namesake cards to get hit due to the risks created by cards like these in non-rotating formats where every new creature printed has the risk of making those cards broken all over again
Sure, you can go in a Hydra kindred direction, which is probably the most straightforward way to go, but you can also go for a big burn spell deck or a ramp deck
Decks with lots of cheap cantrips and card draw are perfect homes for Rite of the Dragoncaller, since you wont risking running low on resources