Process-wise, I first looked at all the cards from the old Lord of Tresserhorn deck which fit the theme, put them on the list, and built from there
Kytheon, Hero of Akros definitely gets the checkmark for being Standard playable, but we might not see this guy breaking down tournament walls until Courser of Kruphix and Sylvan Caryatid becomes a thing of the past
For example, black board wipes might lower the power and toughness of every creature, and when a creature's toughness becomes zero it dies even if it has indestructible
These kinds of insights can gird our minds as we ask, to return to the first few paragraphs of the article, that evergreen question: why does this look this way
The set takes place on Hexhaven, a more combat-focused version of Strixhaven, where Jace has control and seemingly rules with an iron fist, with his own faceless enforcers and eyeball-creature sentinels
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