Adventures In The Forgotten Realms also continued to place treasure generating cards in Green
Throw in the huge inherent utility of putting bodies on board in a combat-centric game, and its clear why evoke creatures have had such an enormous effect on how Magic is balanced
But once you have devotion to black of 2, Drag becomes a slightly harder to cast unrestrictive Doom Blade / Go for the Throat / Cast Down / etc
There are ways to make it more evasive, and you can start easily taking out opponents once you get The Ring to tempt you enough times
First, we do need better and more effective reprints to bring prices down and should do everything we can to push Wizards in this direction
In fact, by the time you read this, Gavin Verhey will have been at my house for a few days (coinciding with a longer visit by Scott and Toby), talking about the format and playtesting future cards