Bontu is a fine dork in his own right
There are cards like Famfrit, the Darkening Cloud [3-123R], who does not choose its target, but many cards that are used to defeat a Forward will have to choose Neo Exdeath [12-110L]
Rishkar's Expertise The nice thing about Rishkar's Expertise is that youre not falling behind on tempo since you can cast a spell that costs 5 or less for free on top of drawing cards
I've drafted the format a ton at this point and these are my current thoughts on how things are playing out
Whenever one or more Assassins you control deal combat damage to a player, exile up to one target Assassin card or card with freerunning from your graveyard
The lack of a printing in any real set, other than Iconic Masters, if you count that, is most likely responsible