R&D hopes the letters will stop soon because they are tired of hearing me scream, We couldn't have one bleeping goat?!" The point I was getting at before was that if you want to make linear mechanics friendly to deckbuilding (that is the open-endedness of the deckbuilding and not the simplicity) you need to make them backwards-compatible
It does make it impervious to targeted non-exile removal, but this is the kind of creature that needs indestructible when your opponents control creatures
In this format, you want to accelerate your mana, find your colors early, and interact with your opponent, or you'll fall behind
Creatures (13) Planeswalkers (4) Lands (23) Spells (20) A third reason is one Reid touched on years ago: their deck is so redundant that Thoughtseize just costs you mana and life for a trade when a different interactive card would also cost them mana and you no life
Top green common: Contagious Vorrac This piggy-wig might look a bit innocuous, but these kinds of card advantage effects have more than proven their value in the past, and this one's pick position of 2.39 shows that folks have cottoned on
