This is because, according to communications director Blake Rasmussen, the set is designed more to simply be playable within a casual Modern environment, rather than the hard competitive focus of the earlier Modern sets Despite not being made exclusively for Modern, it will include some cards made to fill holes within the format
Racism in any form is unacceptable and has no place in our games, nor anywhere else." Additionally, these cards will be banned in all sanctioned tournament play
You want to mill opponents to get access to their creatures or artifacts, and you can keep attacking people with horrors to mill even more cards
It also has synergies with +1/+1 counters or decks that care about high power or toughness
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