Well, well, I guess you can't stick around here without eventually stirring something up. Anyway, first, to clarify "cursory" practically the only thing I looked at were the rares. Second I meant the creative team in the monolithic sense, I'm sure that there have been plenty of changes, I didn't mean the same specific people. I meant the sort of policy that seems to have been implemented since Urza's that when in doubt power down the card. I just see so many cards that would be good and playable if they just cost 1 less or didn't apply to everybody, or were god forbid an instant instead of a sorcery. I don't really play competitively, I play a sort of underpowered type 1, so if something is good in type 2 or extended it doesn't necessarily make me all that motivated to go get it. Also Gizmo is totally right about Nemesis and possibly about Odyssey too, because I only bought three packs and each rare was worse than the one before it so I decided to quit then. Basically this is an internet message board and I feel free to make pithy unsubstantiated comments rather than long thoughtout substantiated arguements. Besides, if you start off unimpressed you can only go up from there.