many cards in Alpha would be deemed too powerful for tournament play, others were outright unplayable
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In some of the weaker recent sets this would have been a rare
Drain synergies on Bastion of Remembrance, pingers like Thermo-Alchemist, and consistent noncombat damage from a card like Chandra, Awakened Inferno, spell doom for players that can't engage in combat
Depending on the art you could always run another Omnath if you like, although you could end up in pedantic T-pose arguments given that Omnath has four arms and tends to do more of an X-pose
Its something were going to continue to see too, and overall I think its a good thing for the game