I found the entire process to be quite pleasant and appreciated both his professionalism and knowledge of comics
This mechanic groups five creature types - Assassins, Mercenaries, Pirates, Rogues, and Warlocks - together, with cards that will refer to Outlaws in order to refer to multiple creature types at once or to check and affect those creature types
The other option is to focus on what people liked about Standard, what it did well, who it served, and figure out what would have to happen to create organic interest in the format
Knight of the Reliquary tutors up those shock lands for you like nobody's business, all while getting bigger with each successful fetch
Future Flash is the cleaner comparison if you want a different chase structure or sealed price band
For example, fake slabs virtually always get the font wrong