Deaths Shadow first started seeing play a few years ago in a very different type of deck in Modern, called Suicide Zoo
But I hope that this article illustrates why evergreen worries about there being too many cards coexisting with record sales: Magic isnt a game
Vendors typically follow consistent routes and schedules
Colossal Dreadmaw survives as a meme despite Wizards making a couple of cards that are clear nods to it, but if Wizards makes two more elk cards, we think they'll officially be flogging a dead horse (I realize I'm risking confusion here, introducing a second four-legged animal to the paragraph)
In any event, I'm focusing in on the last block of text on Cyclonus, the Saboteur: Whenever Cyclonus deals combat damage to a player, it Connives
Ive played Magic casually since college and, over the last two years, started regularly attending tournaments in hobby shops