The fact that we had [card]Stormbreath Dragon[/card] and [card]Thundermaw Hellkite[/card] back to back shows us that they CAN make a constructed playable dragon, they just chose not to. This set has an overwhelming stink of low effort on Wizard’s part and it makes me skeptical to the idea that there are good things in the pipeline.

The designers will all tell you the same thing: not every card was designed for every person, but they’ve been spending a lot of time leaning heavily on that sentiment and very little time creating cards that are compelling to play in addition to emotionally compelling.

Even just looking at the Liliana spoiled for Magic Origins has me completely unexcited for what that set’s going to bring. For the first five minutes, I looked at that card and said “yeah, that’s neat … it kinda tells a whole story.” After that card spends five minutes telling me a compelling narrative it needs to be compelling enough to play for 18 months, and it’s just not.