It makes minus loyalty abilities less painful because normally that might mean your 'walker is heading toward a dangerous place, but now
For your first few drafts, just take the card that looks the most interesting and powerful to you and don't kill yourself over the details (that part comes later in your drafting career)
Aether Revolt The payoff that energy decks always needed is here in Aether Revolt
Of course were running plenty of weird tricks, like Gavel of the Righteous, Flourishing Defenses, and The Ozolith, that will let us do everything from put -1/-1 counters on our opponents creatures to creating tokens or making one gigantic attacker wielding an Equipment thats somehow getting stronger with bad counters on it
Verhey mentions that the panel was assembled to have diverse viewpoints and perspectives, whether demographically or in terms of player profile
Maybe for like a proliferate deck it's okay as a +1/+1 source and a trample source