R&D hopes the letters will stop soon because they are tired of hearing me scream, We couldn't have one bleeping goat?!" The point I was getting at before was that if you want to make linear mechanics friendly to deckbuilding (that is the open-endedness of the deckbuilding and not the simplicity) you need to make them backwards-compatible
Both picture take place in the exact same spot
Top green common: Contagious Vorrac This piggy-wig might look a bit innocuous, but these kinds of card advantage effects have more than proven their value in the past, and this one's pick position of 2.39 shows that folks have cottoned on
We then realized it would be cool to have a battle showing the Zhalfir attacking Phyrexia with the back face being Teferi
Creatures (13) Planeswalkers (4) Lands (23) Spells (20) A third reason is one Reid touched on years ago: their deck is so redundant that Thoughtseize just costs you mana and life for a trade when a different interactive card would also cost them mana and you no life
Kargan himself is a fine example of a level up dork, he is a perfectly acceptable beater when you first make him and invest no further mana into him
