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And where did a major piece of experimenting on planeswalker design take place? ORI, with the flip walkers. Again, relatively harmless on their own, but it seeded concepts that eventually blossomed into those static abilities. When I look at where things need to be cut off in order to guarantee a better, healthier Magic, I'm looking for the roots, and in my research, those roots all lead back to ORI inevitably. As to Veil of Summer, that's just good ol' fashioned power creep rearing its head. Which was also a lot less frequent during the three set block era.