It's maturing
Senior Game Designer Ethan Fleischer used his expansive knowledge of the characters of Legends to design 19 new legendary creatures and one new legendary planeswalker

Ageless Entity Ancient Cornucopia Baloth Prime Bloomvine Regent Blossoming Bogbeast Bog-Strider Ash Bounteous Kirin Bristlebud Farmer Comforting Counsel Courser of Kruphix Creeping Crystal Coating Deathgorge Scavenger Deepwood Tantiv Dredger's Insight Druid Class Dwynen, Gilt-Leaf Daen Eager Trufflesnout Earth Kingdom General Elder Gargaroth Engulfing Slagwurm Essence Symbiote Essence Warden Eumidian Terrabotanist Exemplar of Strength Fangren Marauder Favor of the Woods Froghemoth Gala Greeters Galadriel, Gift-Giver Gift of the Woods Gladehart Cavalry Glowing One Gourmand's Talent Graf Mole Graham O'Brien Grazing Gladehart Herald of the Pantheon Heroic Feast Hurska Sweet-Tooth Intrepid Trufflesnout Jaddi Offshoot Kazandu Nectarpot Kibo, Uktabi Prince Laid to Rest Leyline of Vitality Lifegift Lifesmith Lisette, Dean of the Root Living Artifact Lucky the Pizza Dog Lurking Roper Meriadoc Brandybuck Mirkwood Elk Nexus Wardens Orchard Warden Overgrowth Elemental Path of Annihilation Pestbrood Sloth Powerleech Primeval Bounty Prize Pig Prosperous Innkeeper Provisions Merchant Pummeler for Hire Ravenous Daggertooth Retreat to Kazandu Rhys the Exiled Roots of Life Rysorian Badger Sacred Prey

Even in an epic fantasy card game like Magic: the Gathering, populated by giants, dragons, angels, titans, krakens and demons, labeling something a god creates an extra layer of expectation
And fortunately the deck is stuffed with good ways to get counters onto your creatures, from Sphere Grid to Tromell, Seymour's Butler
The Night Wanderer set is due out in the early summer in Japan, with an English release to follow in the late summer