This incremental increase of value over your opponents helps everyone feel good, but you slowly take the lead in a game
Either the transform conditions were simple enough to fulfill yourself, or the payoff on the back side wasnt big enough to justify using a card to reach it
In an article about kicker written by Mark Rosewater in 2007, he writes: It's too big of a mechanic Almost any mechanic that requires paying extra mana (or extra anything) can get shoehorned into the kicker box. That was 2007 , imagine how many more kicker-like mechanics have been released since then
2 Archon Of Cruelty If Liliana is the queen of discard spells, Archon of Cruelty is the king
This ultimately means there will be more cards in circulation and therefore, those that are out there will be less valuable
It is also Matron and Recruiter than really help some of the combo elements of the deck