Artists will get a brief for example, a card featuring Ludwig von Drake of Wonderful World of Color and DuckTales , and hes at a party bailed up in a corner, and hes talking your ear off. Then, it will be up to the artist to interpret this text, and develop an array of options
Tataru Taru is also kind of interesting as a good ol' hatebear, like Lotho, because if there's anything EDH players like doing, it's drawing a bunch of cards
The gameplan of using Fetchlands, Shocklands, and Street Wraith to lower your own life total and make Deaths Shadow a deadly threat used to be very strong
Its a mechanic that turns on once a card enables it and can be taken by dealing combat damage to the player with initiative, much like monarch
Coin flip cards are frequently controversial and not everyone agrees on their relative merits, but most of whats going on with Ral Zarek has nothing to do with coin flips and even the coin flip ability involves flipping five coins which actually smooths out the variance