I like how MH3 looked at other ways to trigger a creature to connive--in the case of this Land, you can have a creature you control connive X, where X is the n umber of creatures that died that turn
Not your run-of-the-mill Planeswalker or your foil Mythic Rare pulls
That might be related to the Genesys format againTCGplayer shows that buyers were also picking up copies of Maxx C, which is banned in Advancedbut it might also have to do with the Fiendsmith Yummy deck that Rhett Mutchler used to reach the finals of the Goodlettsville Regional the previous weekend
The Thunder Vernier on its back can be rotated to face forwards and fire electricity, or amplify its propulsive power by firing behind it
Snatchy + Surprise can still threaten Cooky Way, so I feel cards like A.I
Yes, development spends a lot of time trying to figure out where a set will take the metagame, but by that point the design is already handed off