I haven't played against a field of the dead Golos deck, but I think any game where your commander could have been replaced with
Reap and Sow and you still would have won, I don't think that means the commander is OP. Maybe it means the archetype is OP, or maybe it means your deck is OP, or maybe it means FotD is OP, or maybe it just means your opponents sucked and/or had bad draws. But fetching a land for 5 mana is not overpowered, let alone 7 or 9. If having 5 mana nonbasic tutor in the CZ is backbreaking then that has to be an indictment of the cards around it, not the card itself.
Anyway, that's not actually what I wanted to talk about, but rather that I had my first experience playing against
Esika, God of the Tree // The Prismatic Bridge last night and...hoo boy, %$#% that card. His deck was really low-powered, running cards like
Traveler's Amulet and
Arboreal Grazer, and it was still incredibly stupid. His hits weren't even that huge (best hit he got was
Liliana, Dreadhorde General), but it still dominated the game until I hit a lucky
Hour of Revelation, which still ended up drawing him 14 cards. I shudder to think of how ridiculous that commander would be in a deck that wasn't hot trash, where every creature/planeswalker costs 6+ and the rest of the deck is counterspells and removal.
So I'm curious if other people have played against Esika yet and what their opinions are, and whether Esika or Golos (or Kenrith or Najeela or...) are the most groan-worthy 5c commander. Personally I think Esika is probably worse, since Golos does put restrictions on all the cards in your deck -
Counterspell is a pretty rotten hit off Golos, for example, as are most low-curve utility spells, whereas Esika can run anything she likes instant/sorcery/artifact/enchantment-wise (and as many lands as she likes), so long as her planeswalkers and creatures are big beeferinos. Also she's much harder to kill, and often won't die to answers that kill the value she produces -
Wrath of God will clean up all the praetors and eldrazi perhaps, but then she just slams another big dumb fatty on the next turn. Whatever you may think about golos' whiff chances, there is at least SOME chance, Esika has zero chance of whiffing. And perhaps the biggest issue, she requires no additional mana investment, so she can trivially keep up answers while developing far faster than the other players who are investing actual resources. Although on the plus side, at least she doesn't give any value if killed immediately, and she can't hit
Expropriate or other obnoxious sorceries.
EDIT: curiously, her EDHrec page is one of the most confusing ones I've seen - most of the popular creature slots are populated by Gods, which (1) is a terrible non-deck and (2) still is only ~26% of the decks, yet there's only a scant few generic bombs on the list. No Eldrazi, no Praetors, none of the stuff you'd actually expect. So I have no clue what everyone is actually doing with this card tbh. Maybe it's somehow safe, simply because it's so trivial to break that everyone decided it would be too boring?