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The others feel like their function is to help bolster those primary game plans, or even shore up weaknesses in them

This version does a good job of telling the specific story of the Minstrel creating higher difficulty fights, but it doesn't reward you for putting Towns in your deck unless you can afford to invest five mana, which often won't be the case in Standard

II Zantetsuken This creature gains "Whenever this creature deals combat damage to a player, that player loses the game."

The Haunt of Hightower The Haunt of Hightower exploits discard as a source of counters to become a Voltron commander

And until Wizards either rolls back their odd changes or figures out a way to design for a 20-set Standard, it's hard to imagine how the format can really improve over the long haul