Surge, Erika, and Skyla, are egotistical Jerkasses with a condescending demeanor towards their challengers (or, in Erika's case, towards those who don't appreciate the perfume her gym makes)
while it put up a handful of low-level results over the next couple of years (winning a few daily events on Magic Online and posting a couple of PTQ Top 8s), it never put up a marquee finish, and even the low-level results were few and far between (I count a total of 18 low-level finishes between 2012 and the beginning of 2015)
The Gods ability to head back really works well in these formats and metagames, which is precisely the sort of metagame you typically see in multiplayer generally, and Commander specifically
I ended up opting for Circle of Protection: Red and Powerleech, but these may not be the correct choices
Cycling (then called sliding) was created by Richard Garfield during Tempest design