Mark Rosewater has an indepth article on the mothership explaining the reasons behind the changes, but the summary is: The Fall, Winter, and Spring Sets will all be large sets that are drafted alone (no more "blocks" or "small sets") The Summer Set will be a revamped Core Set (roughly half reprints, half new cards) A different approach to the Gatewatch (pulling back on apperances as planeswalker cards) The Masterpieces Series will revert to being in fewer sets (none in Ixalan) We're changing things behind the scenes (new R&D group "Play Design")
Tormod's Crypt and Welding Jar are examples of more situational zero-mana artifacts that can work in improvise decks
A five drop in Modern needs to be way stronger
Archived from the original on November 29, 2020
Tomorrow's Pokemon Card: So thanks for reading today's Pokemon card review of Scyther from the Dark Explorers set, stay tuned for tomorrow's card review of Crustle from the same set.
Theres also just a lot of great artifact support in general, so its a solid choice to fill out a collection