For an opponent to have it late in the game, they first need to have had perfect threat assessment in order to not spend their answers earlier in the game
You could take the damage with the intention of attacking back, but what if your opponent plays a bigger creature
Auntie Blythe is inarguably a group slug commander, but you can tone it down to focus all of its damage effects on yourself rather than the entire table simultaneously
In a normal deck this is too unreliable to give you any of the security we desire from our removal cards
It invented the genre, major books, major movies, major animation and games. The MTG set also nailed the tone of the original story and setting, not least thanks to its masterful art direction
Digital-only cards essentially have one big implication for Magic: The Gathering: basically, Wizards of the Coast is not interested in maintaining parity with the paper version of the game anymore