According to the official announcement, Standard was looking fun and healthy just three months ago, but the release of Tarkir: Dragonstorm had a dramatic effect on the metagame
The second printing of the Alpha set in Sept
There are some arguments against a strategy like that, especially because it relies on your opponents creatures more than your own
Plus, Winds will exile them, rather than destroying them, and you keep your dorks
In the past, Wizards had nibbled around the edges of the reprint problem, either printing expensive cards in limited quantities or cheap cards en masse, but with Commander 2016 (as with Conspiracy 2 ), we see the rare combination of valuable cards (and lots of them) in a huge-supply product