Zimone, Mystery Unraveler is a four-mana 3/3 Human Wizard that thrives on Landfall which basically means when lands enter, cool stuff happens
This Lost Caverns of Ixalan card is just way too strong in typal decks, and the ability doubling effect on a hard-to-kill colorless creature is also just useful for any deck with good triggered abilities in the command zone
Grasping Dunes design was simply us taking the elements of the original Desert and tweaking them to play better
This week, I want to discuss a wider issue I have with the design of creatures, using the disappointment stemming from the lack of the ally creature type in Zendikar Rising as an entry point
The initial damage clears out smaller creatures and planeswalkers, and every land you play after that replaces your board with flying 4/4 dragons, making fetch lands and extra land drop effects extremely efficient, quickly turning a reset into overwhelming pressure that many decks struggle to answer turn after turn
Creatures that are more complicated or resource-intensive work better with self-mill strategies