Some of the new Commander 2013 spoiled cards

Since we have a lot to talk about in our Round Robin EDH, I wanted to make a quick post about the commander 2013 spoilers that were spoiled today.
Well my thoughts on two cards anyway:

This first card, I think can be more fun of a commander than the other one they've shown so far. I think something like mycosynth lattice or memnarch would be fun with this commander. Also, I like Terese Nielsen as an artist, so the art on the card is icing on the cake.

The curses don't look as fun politically as the vows did in the original commander precons, but I really like everything about this one. I could see it working really well with bident of thassa and edric spymaster of trest, since you can tap things down before declare blockers step. Additionally, it acts as a mini-sword of feast and famine ability. 

The thing that really makes me like the card though, is how it references puppet strings in its flavor text.