As Wizards acknowledges in the post: "the most played archetypes have remained largely the same over the past months." With this week's changes, though, fans will be expecting a major shift to MTG Standard's competitive meta, as all three of these Standard bans will impact the same popular deck archetype: Red/Blue snow decks that rely on Goldspan Dragon to ramp and Aldrund's Epiphany to close out the game
The risk here is that turn three is too late to have a 2/2, but the ability to potentially exile enemy threats could tip things into making this card a bit of a monster
While the card-draw spell did not make it into any competitive Cascade-list, Crashing Footfalls became the namesake card of a Tier 1 Modern deck, Temur Rhinos
Aethersphere Harvester : Artifact (Vehicle), casting cost of three generic mana
The flexibility in the scheme is good because it's hard to plan around getting it
Being able to cast one of them is just a cute bonus, but what you really want is to disrupt their combos and other power plays