This card began, to the best of my knowledge, as someone trying to design to the name "Hedron Alignment." The hedrons play a major role in the Gatewatch's fight against the Eldrazi, so it seemed only right to have a card nodding to them
Some players dislike them for their ubiquity, and others arent fond of how much theyre above the usual rate, but theres no denying their strengths
You even get a threat in Lazotep Convert, which becomes the best card in anyone's graveyard later
C: Though MTG has stressed that black is not Evil (and even had a mono-black hero in Kamigawa, Toshiro Umezawa), it would be nice to see a heroine who embraces self-love and sexuality in another color or colors
These are the same design goals and challenges we see all the time when designing a product, McCrimmon says
This past weekend, for example, a spicy Temur Ramp deck made top four of an MTG Arena Standard Qualifier event